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INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. 



wing-cases shaded with rosy pink and barred and spotted 

 with black. The larvae are shaped like the mature insects, 

 but have no wings. They are black, and are striped and 

 banded with orange-yellow. The wings of the perfect insect 

 (see Fig. 395) are so short — reaching only half-way to the 



Fig. 395. 



Fig. 396. 



extremity of the abdomen — that they are quite useless for the 

 purpose of flight. Their eggs are deposited in the ground. 

 Since they cannot fly, they may easily be destroyed by hand. 



No. 246.— The Leaf-footed Plant-bug. 



Leptoglossus phyllopus (Linn.). 



The leaf-footed plant-bug is of a reddish- 

 brown color, with a long, sharp beak, and 

 a transverse yellowish-white band across its 

 wing-covers. The wings, when raised, show 

 the body, which is of a bright- red color, 

 with black spots. The shanks of the hind 

 legs are flattened out into leaf-like append- 

 ages, as shown in Fig. 396. This insect is 

 said to puncture the tender shoots and ter- 

 minal branches of the orange-tree, often 

 killing them. It also injures ripe plums, 



