THE STILT BUGS 



(Family Berytidce.) 



Fig. 20 1 a. — Jalysus spinosus 

 (After Lugger.) 



This group, rather closely allied to the Coreidae, is of much 

 smaller extent. It includes slender plant bugs which have the 

 thighs thickened at the tip. Some of them are very slender and 

 have long, thin legs, from which fact they have been termed 

 "stilt bugs." Only six species are known to occur in the 

 United States and the life history of none of them has been care- 

 fully worked out. Jalysus spinosus, our commonest species, a 

 •sluggish little insect which is to be found on the undergrowth in 

 oak woods, all through the summer, from Maine to Georgia and 

 westward to Texas and Arizona, would be a good species to 

 study carefully, 



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