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INSECTS INJURIOUS TO GARDEX AND ORCHARD CROPS. 



bear two rows of strong, thorn-like teeth on the inner surface and 

 several less prominent teeth and tubercles on the outer side. The hind 

 tibia? are strongly dilated (sometimes considerably more than in the 

 specimen figured near the middle into flat expansions or plates and 

 bear two prominent, and usually one and sometimes two less promi- 

 nent, teeth on the lateral surface and several minute teeth or serra- 

 tions on the medial surface. The antennae are lighter than the head, 

 growing rather gradually lighter toward the apices, where they are 

 yellowish-red. The apex of the scutellum is marked with a white 

 point where the hemelytra meet, and each hemelytron is dotted near 

 the middle and behind the scutellar spot with a similar whitish sub- 

 medial point. The inner dilated surface of the tibire is also marked 

 just in front of the middle with a similar spot, and the connexivum or 

 t relieved sides of the abdomen shows each 



side of the hemelytra a row of three or 

 four similar small white marks. Length 

 of body. IS to 21 mm : width across thorax, 

 5 to 6 mm . 



The sexes may be determined by the 

 genital structure, which resembles that 

 of Anasa. The males are more slender 

 than the other sex. 



This species may at once be separated 

 from any other similar insect occurring 

 on cucurbits as far north as Maryland 

 and Virginia by the large teeth of the 

 inflated tibia?. L. corculus, which occurs 

 in the same region and southward, has 

 FlG - 1 nrtcenat- the tibiae less dilated and without large 



nral size (after Hubbard). 



teeth. The southern L. phyllopus has 



somewhat wider expansions of the tibia?, and the hemelytra marked just 

 above the middle by a conspicuous transverse white band broken at its 

 center, which marking takes the place of the two dots on the hemelytra 

 of oppositus. L.phyllopus is also a little smaller and slenderer, and has 

 the lateral angles of the prothorax more acutely pointed. 



This plant-bug was described by Thomas Say in his " Descriptions of 

 new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of Xorth America " in 1831 

 (Lee. ed.. p. 327) as Anisoscelis op})ositiis. from Indiana. Stal records its 

 occurrence in Georgia and Texas, Thler also in Indian Territory. North 

 Carolina. Maryland, and Kentucky. It occurs as well in the District 

 of Columbia, as previously mentioned, and in Virginia. 



THE BANDED LEAF-FOOTED PLANT-BUG. 



(Loptoglossv* jilu/Uojyus Linn.) 



During August. 1898, this species came under notice as an enemy to 

 cucurbits through correspondence with Messrs. W. H. McLeod & Sons, 

 Seabrook, S. C. August 15, specimens of the insect, which is known 



