i i ^ fhivd and fourth rows of spots on each side 
an?alternating with them. ‘ Beneath, the whole body is immaculate. 
The eyes are red, and the yellow, 
the tarsi, which ¥ e ,® =, ? „ mm in grea test width. The wing 
fs Ve 2 3 g mm In lmigth 1 The^ntenme are a little shorter than the 
ho? measuring a trifle over 1 mm. in length, and the joints are 
body, measuring a um , female. The antennal hairs are 
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sir ? Jsssr sp. g «» StF TO, ' ,bort ’ “ ,y 
reaching to the coxae of the second pair of legs. 
LIFE HISTORY. 
The original discovery of this species in sorghum fields, in July, 
at Champaign, has already been mentloned ’ t ^ ge 3 t 1 h g e t r Jf Juj 6 it was 
in which it occurred at this season. On the dist or jury, it ™ 
sUl^in|lhe same ^ondition on the 
McLean county it was found in all stages on the lower leaves o 
the sorghum -but in October a protracted search in the fields at 
Champaign which had previously been infested by it, failed to dis- 
eove?a single specimen, and it has not been seen since m any situ¬ 
ation/ Its life history in autumn, winter and early spring is, there- 
fore, unknown. 
injuries. 
In both sorghum and broom-corn fields visited at Champaign, the 
nrincinal damage from which the plants were, suffering had evi- 
SX been done earlier in the season, and .it. was consequently 
impossible to tell precisely how much of this injury might be du 
t ,,1-mt-lice which were then on the leaves, and how much 
££ ifi. .p r «t. n. “L rr. “5 
however must without doubt, be charged to this insect, as m ^ 
strictlv coincident with the presence of the lice. From two or thr 
to six^or eight of the largest leaves were brown and shriveled where 
the Chaitophorus was most abundant, and one or two more we 
often reddened and partly dead Even 
had been almost completely killed, patches of tfiese pla t-hce wer 
still to be seen, as if reluctant to quit their hold until the last di ] 
of sap had been extracted. 
In these same fields the corn plant-louse was commonly present 
but this was as closely confined to the upper part of the s _ 
being usually concealed within the rolled bases of the p 
leaves. 
