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tulata Fabr. Mr E. P. VanDuzee of Buffalo, who kindly determined out- 

 specimens, states that this species may be recognized by the short, broad 

 head, truncate at -the apex, with the apical sinus nearly transverse. The 

 surface is finely and coarsely punctured and ornamented in places by groups 

 of large, black punctures ; the sides of the pronotum before the sinus are 

 strongly arcuated and armed with close regular teeth ; the. second joint of 

 the antennae is much shorter than the third, and the rostrum is longer, 

 usually reaching the third ventral segment. He 

 states that this is a comparative!)' rare species, 

 which he has seen only from the eastern United 

 States, his material showing a range from southern 

 New York to Florida. Messrs Walsh and Riley 

 record the insect from Hannibal Mo. in 1869, at 

 which time it was considered beneficial. Its dis- 

 tribution has been given by Uhler as Colorado, 

 Texas and a large part of the United States east 

 of the Mississippi river. Mr C. H. T. Townsend 

 lists it from Kansas, and Professor Osborn states 

 that it is common in Iowa. Dr Smith also lists 

 this insect from a number of New Jersey locations and from Staten 

 Island. 



Habits. There are several records of this species occurring on apple- 

 trees in considerable numbers, and Messrs Rilev and Howard cite a case in 

 Virginia, where this insect attacked a new growth of appletrees in the 

 month of May. It is there known as the "large chinch bug," and many 

 twigs and limbs were said to have been killed by the insect. These gentle- 

 men add that the adults occur under bark in midwinter, and that the eggs 

 and young larvae have been found on pea vines and willow. 



Professor Webster also records a case where this insect killed the 

 shoots on some young appletrees in May 1894, at Owensville O. This was 

 on the farm of Mr Lowell Rauderbush, who wrote Professor Webster that 

 he had carefully watched the insect in the summer and found that it also 



Fig. 146 Brochymena annulata, 

 enlarged (original) 



