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leaf with a look of perfect innocence and as if unconscious of any 
guile or deceit; yet watching its opportunity to do so unobserved, it 
again expertly dodges around to the back side of the leaf. If the 
hand approaches to seize it, it quickly drops itself down among the 
foliage beneath. Or if one hand is held under the leaf, whereby it 
in dropping falls into it and the fingers are closed upon it, ere one is 
aware, it slips out at some opening between them and falls among 
the leaves or into the grass. It does not incline to take wing except 
as a dernier resort. By its long, stout hind legs it is adapted for 
skipping; and its mode of progression is quite singular. It walks 
briskly a few steps and then gives a skip, throwing itself two or 
three inches, and it then pauses and looks around, apparently to see 
if anything has noticed and is following it. It then walks a few steps 
further and gives another skip and again stops and looks back ; being 
evidently aware that when it is moving it is much more liable to be 
seen by some enemy then when it is standing still. 
These bugs which we meet with grown to maturity and paired in 
the middle of June, lay a crop of eggs from which another generation 
completes its growth before the end of the season. Thus there are 
two generations annually. 
This insect having only a single strongly curved vein in the 
membranous ends of its wing covers, and the two last joints of its 
long four-jointed antennae very slender, will pertain to the family 
Capsid in the order Hemiftera. And as the second joint of its 
antennae is cylindrical and not thickened toward its tip, and the 
fourth joint is notably shorter than the third it will belong to the 
genus Phytocoris. 
It is undoubtedly the species which Mr. Say describes under the 
name Capsus A-vittatus at page 20 of his pamphlet on the Hete- 
ropterous Hemiptera, published at Mew Harmony, la., 1832, and 
republished in Trans. N. Y. State Ag. Soc. for 1857, p. 784. We 
notice his description is taken from a female specimen, and is errone¬ 
ous in saying that the black dot at the end of the exterior stripe is 
annulated or inclosed in a ring of a different color, lie also says the 
lateral stripes on the thorax are marginal. But the thorax shows a 
yellow edge along the outer side of these stripes; they, therefore, in 
strictness, are not marginal but sub-marginal. 
Mr. Say closes his observations on this species with the query, Can 
this be Lygaens lineatus, F. Syst. Rhyng., p. 234? This is an 
important point to be determined. Fabricius, in the work cited, 
defines the lineatus to be ferruginous, or in other words, rusty yellow 
