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[drawings]
Cotton. Insects injuring it. Cotton Stainer, or Red bug. Plate 19.
1. Dysdercus. (Amy 272) suturellus. H Sch. (Pyrehocoris. Burm)  Red bug. egg nat size. & magnified.
2.  Dysdercus young insect before acquiring wings.  3.  same with rudimentary wings.
4.  Insect immediately before acquiring wings.  5. Insect ♂ nat. size  6.  Insect ♀ dorsal
& ventral view to show position of piercer or sucker  7. antennae mag.  8 leg magnified.
9.  Piercer which the insect inserts into the boll or seed. to suck sap. or juice  10 Thorax.
nat. size  11.  interior part of piercer.  12.  Cotton boll dwarfed & staple stained by the
red bugs.  13.  single seed of Sea island Cotton. with staple half stripped off, to show seed
& the cotton as stained by the insects.  14. Upper. & under wings of insect nat size.
(Note) None of these insects were found in or near Tallahasse, Florida, in 1855. but immense
numbers of them were seen infesting the fields. near Jacksonville (Fla.) where the
cotton plants were literally colored red with the multitudes that were crawling over
the stalks, leaves, & bolls. It is also worthy of remark. that none of these red bugs, were
seen by one in former years in S.Car. Geo.  Alab. Mississ. or Tenessee. up to the present time 1857.
T Glover
        