NEZARA VlliIIHLA L. 
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Victoria, Tex. In this connection it has bees observed that in the 
laboratory at night adults of this species atop feeding, become rest- 
less, and fly about in the breeding cage when an electric lamp is turned 
on in the room. 
On cotton the 
writer has taken 
a specimen of 
Ni zara viridula 
on a boll at Cam- 
eron, La., and 
one at Johnsons 
Bayou, La., both 
on October 10, 
1904, and has 
taken a fourth- 
instar nymph at 
Calvert, Tex., 
August 27. 1903, 
and a fifth-instar 
nymph at Victo- 
ria, Tex., No- 
vember 10, 1904. 
Mr. F. C. Pratt 
found adults of 
the species com- 
mon on turnip at 
New Braunfels, 
Tex., on October 
27, L905. 
Of 3 9 specimens 
collected by Mr. 
Hooker at Quin- 
cy, Fla., in >tair<'> 
susceptible to 
parasitism by 
Tachinids, in 
only one instance 
was a Tachinid 
egg found at- Fig. 16 
tached to a bug. 
This bug was in the fifthnymphal instar and became adult 4 days after 
the egg was firsl observed and died 10 days later, but upon dissection 
no evidence of the presence of an internal parasite could be found. 
Xtznrn viridula: Nymph, fifth instar: light and dark types. En- 
larged 6 diameters. (Origin 
