202 DISEASES OF THE COTTON PLANT. 
it is the perfect insect alone which, by means of a pair of 
under-wings, concealed beneath the wing-cases, is able to 
fly about and propagate its kind. 
The Gray Plant-Bug. — {Pmtatoma ?) 
The spotted plant-bug is very much of the same shape 
as that last described, but is not so broad. It is gray, and 
marked with black dots and lines ; it is also smaller than 
the former, being only three-fifths of an inch in length ; 
the outer margin of the thorax is somewhat pointed or 
angular; the scutellum, broad and triangular; and the 
wings, when closed, terminate with a black, diamond- 
shaped mark, where they overlap ; there are two ocelli ; the 
antennae are five-jointed ; and the appearance of the insect 
is flat, broad, and similar to the so-called " squash-bug " of 
the North. This insect was often seen with its piercer 
inserted into a boll, extracting the sap, which was ejected 
from the abdomen as a bright, greenish liquid. 
Tliese insects were found plentifully on the cotton in 
Geor^a, in 1854, and in Florida, in 1855. 
The Red-Ed ged-Winged Reduvhjs. — {Reduvius ?) 
A species of reduvius was found in abundance in the 
cotton fields of Florida, in 1855. The female measures a 
little more than three-fifths of an inch in length, and the 
male about ha¥ an inch. The head is of a grayish black ; 
the eyes prominent, black, and brilliant ; the antennae are 
four-jointed; the thorax is triangular, with the angle 
toward the head, truncated, black, with an edging of red ; 
the wing-cases are reddish, spotted with black, and edged 
with red, with their ends, where they overlap, black; the 
legs are black from half way up the thighs, where they are 
