REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 



753 



Fig. 25 Squash bug : a adult female twice 

 natural size ; b, o and d details of structure 

 more enlarged (after Chittenden, U. S. dep't 

 agric. div. ent. Bui. 19, new series) 



merited with a pair of dark spots on the anterior border near 

 the median line. The body is a rather dark green and bears 

 large, whitish, quite conspicuous tubercles, each with one to 

 three hairs or setae. The anal plate is rather prominent and 

 dark brown posteriorly. The 

 true legs are black and the false 

 or prolegs are a yellowish green 

 color. Described from a num- 

 ber of living specimens. The 

 pupal shell is about J inch long, 

 brown in color. The cremaster is 

 black and ornamented with about 

 eight or nine recurved hooks. 



Squash bug, A n a s a tristis 

 DeG. This common and ' dis- 

 gusting pest of the squash and 

 other vines has been unusually 

 troublesome and destructive the past season. A number of 

 complaints have been received from various sections of the 

 state. The experience of state botanist Peck may well serve as 



an example. After an absence of about 

 two weeks, he took 63 adult bugs from 

 four hills of squashes, and two hills 

 had but a single plant each. The 

 squash leaves were fairly covered with 

 eggs, and others were deposited on ad- 

 jacent raspberry and plum leaves, as 

 well as on cucumber vines. 



Garden flea, Smynthurus hor- 

 tensis Fitch. Though this insect 

 is said to occur abundantly during 

 May and June in gardens in New York state, it is rarely 

 brought to the attention of economic entomologists. Its 

 small size and quick movements have undoubtedly deterred 

 many from trying to capture it, but this difficulty was in- 

 geniously solved by Mr C. E. Ford, Oneonta N. Y., who 



Fig. 26 Garden flea, much enlarged 

 (after Fitch) 



