THE GREEN SOLDI KH-BUG. 
79 
to i lie geographical 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Mr. E. P. VanDuzee" writes as follows in regard 
distribution of the greeD soldier-bug: 
This is a showy but very common Lnsecl throughout the northeastern CTnited States 
and Canada. Toward the south its range extends through the Southern Stat*- and 
West Indies to Brazil. 
In the West it occurs 
in Kansas, Iowa, Colo- 
rado, Montana, Utah, 
Arizona, and Texas, and 
perhaps over all the 
Western States. 
This is the most 
common Pent ato- 
mic! found on cot- 
ton throughout our 
Southern States, al- 
though it is fre- 
quently exceeded in 
abundance locally 
by other species. 
FOOD PLANTS. 
The green soldier- 
bug, like the Penta- 
tomid cotton pests 
which have been 
considered in the 
foregoing pages, is a 
very general feeder. 
A correspondent of 
the Division of En- 
tomology in L883 
reported the insect 
as occurring in 
abundance in Flor- 
ida OU t (Mllil t (MS, 
egg-plant, t urn ip, 
mustard, peas, and 
oranges. Professor F "'- 15. The green soldier-bug: Nymph, fifth Instar; light ami dark 
Sanderson* has types * Enlar8ed 6 *"»*»■ (Original.) 
compiled from the publications and correspondence liles o( the 
Bureau of Entomology the following additional list o( [\un\ plants 
"Trans. Amor. Km. Soc., Vol. XXX. p. 58, L904. 
& Insects affecting the orange. By 11. <;. Hubbard, L885, p. WO. 
c Bui. 57, Bur. Km.. l\ s. Dept. Agr., pp. 17-49, L906. 
