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What the Insect Is. 

 The insect is one of the numerous species of " plant-bugs," as they 

 are commonly called (sometimes also known as "stink-bugs," from their 

 disgusting odor), which take their food by 

 suction, and are quite injurious to many crops. 

 This is a large green form, measuring one- 

 half inch long by three-tenths of an inch broad. 

 It is suboval in outline, being destitute of the 

 prominent prothoracic lateral angles character- 

 izing most of the family of JPentatomidce, to 

 which it belongs. Fig. 16 represents it in 

 Fio. 16 — Juniper piant-buer^Q^ twice its natural size. It is an European 



Pkntatoma JUXIPERINA. t r 



(Original.) species and was described by Linnreus in his 



Sy sterna Naturce, as Cimex juniperinus. It is now known as Penta- 

 toma juniper ina* 



Its Description. 



The following description of it is from " The Hemiptera Heteroptera 

 of the British Islands," by Edward Saunders: 



Convex, bright olive-green, margin of pronotum and of the base of 

 the elytra pale. Head punctured, antennae darker toward the apex; 

 pronotum very closely punctured, its lateral margins narrowly raised 

 and ochreous, slightly rounded, posterior angles simple; scutellum and 

 elytra closely punctured, the former slightly wrinkled transversely and 

 with the apex pale, the latter with the lateral margins at the base nar- 

 rowly rufescent; legs concolorous with the upper surface. Length 

 12-13 mm. 



Three localities in England named: on Junipers. (Rare.) 



Its Occurrence in Europe. 

 Amyot et Serville describe it briefly,! giving its European synonymy 

 with its distribution as follows: "It inhabits particularly the north 

 of Europe: it is extremely rare in the vicinity of Paris. M. Rambur 

 and Carreno have taken it on the juniper at Fontainebleau." 



American Distribution. 

 Nothing seems to have been published of the habits of this insect 

 in this country, and even its name has been seldom recorded. Yet 

 it appears to have a wide distribution, Mr. Uhler having had it from 

 Colorado. Mr. E. P. Yan Duzee lists it as "occasional on various 

 trees and bushes, especially on willows and junipers, from May to 



* Determined by Mr. P. R. Uhler — not given in his Check-list of the Hemiptera -Heteroptera, 

 of 1836 



t Histoire Naturelle des Insectes.— Hemipteres, 1843, page 132. 



