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October : young in July and August." Provancher has figured 

 " Pentatoma juniperina Linn" in explanation of a plate, but in the text 

 refers to it as Lioderma ligata Say— "a very common species found 

 everywhere infields and gardens," further remarking of it: "Con- 

 founded by several authors with Pentatoma juniperina of Linne, but 

 differing from it in several of its characters." Mr. Glover, in his 

 "Manuscript Notes from my Journal — order Hemiptera," 1876, pi. 7. 

 fig. 21, has given a fairly good figure of it. 



Habits of the Family. 



The Pentatomidm are both phytophagous and carnivorous, sucking 

 the juices of the leaves and twigs of shrubs and trees, and of cater- 

 pillars and other insects which they puncture with their beak and 

 speedily kill by extracting their fluids. 



Remedy, if Abundant. 



P. juniperina is probably too rare a species to become a serious 

 fruit pest. Its numbers at Brockport must have been an exceptional 

 occurrence. In such instances, probably an effective method of dealing 

 with it would be to jar them from the branches while young and before 

 the fruit has attained a large size upon sheets spread underneath, from 

 which they may be shaken into vessels of water and kerosene. 



Leptocoris trivittatus (Say). 

 The Box- elder Plant-bug. 

 (Ord. Hemiptera: Subord. Heteroptera: Fam. Coreid^e.) 



Say: in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1825, p. 322 (original description, as 

 Lygceus trivittatus); Compl. Writ., Lec. Edit., ii, 1883, p. 246. 



Stal: Enum. Hemipt., i, 1870, p. 226 (in Missouri, Mexico). 



Uhler: List Hemipt. West Miss. Riv. (Separata), 1876, p. 35; the same, in Bull. 



U. S. G.-G. Surv. Terr., i, no. 5, 1876, p. 301 (distribution); in id., 

 iii, no. 2, 1877, p. 408 (in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah); Ch. List 

 Hemipt. N. A., 1886, p. 13, no. 606. 



Glover: MS. Notes Journ.— Hemipt, 1876, p. 43, pi. 4, fig. 24 (cites Say). 



Popenoe: in Am. Ent., iii, 1880, p. 162 (habits and appearance); in Industrial- 

 ist, v, no. 47, 1880 (habits and remedies): id., vi, no. 31, 1881 

 (habits); in 3rd Bien. Rept. Kans. St. Bd. Agr. for 1881-82, 1883, 

 pp. 612-613 (general account, as Lygceus trivittatus)-, in 1st Ann. 

 Rept. Kans. Expt. Sta. for 18S8, 1889, pp. 220-225 (extended 

 account with plate); the same, in Industrialist, xiv, 1889, p. 101. 



Distant: in Biologia Centrali- Americana: Rhynchota, 1882, p. 172 (North 

 America, Mexico). 



