Insects affecting the orange . ightshade. Yesterday,while showing a lemon tree to some visitors, I found some of the twigsdrooping and remarked it looked like the work of the Green Bug. Onewas found under a leaf close to his work. I send you one of the at any time you may consider the subject of siiflSient importance to send a trained observer in the field, I will behappy to see him here and place every fticil-ity at his disposal.—[James Franklin,West ApopM, Fla., January 31, 1883. THE THICK-THIGHED METAPODIUS. {Metapodius femoratus, Fab.) [Figs. 74 and 75. A large dark-brown bug, em
Insects affecting the orange . ightshade. Yesterday,while showing a lemon tree to some visitors, I found some of the twigsdrooping and remarked it looked like the work of the Green Bug. Onewas found under a leaf close to his work. I send you one of the at any time you may consider the subject of siiflSient importance to send a trained observer in the field, I will behappy to see him here and place every fticil-ity at his disposal.—[James Franklin,West ApopM, Fla., January 31, 1883. THE THICK-THIGHED METAPODIUS. {Metapodius femoratus, Fab.) [Figs. 74 and 75. A large dark-brown bug, emitting an un- l)leasant odor when handled, is addicted to sucking the juices of the Orange, attacking either the succulent shoots, the flowers, or Fig. 74.—Meta,,odius femoratus. the fruit. It has a licavy, clumsy body, with (Alter J ovii ) projectng angles to the thorax; the thighs of the liiiid pair of legs are swollen and spiny, and the shanks of the same pair are flattened with jagged edges. The adult bug is nearly one. HI MIlTKKOrs INSIXTS ON ORANGE. J 63 inch lonjj. Although shiggisli in habit, it takes wing when disturbed,and flies heavily with a loud, buzzing noise. The eggs have the form of an oval casket, triangular in section, an dare quite large; 3 {-^^f^ inch) in length. They are laid singly uponthe leaves of plants, and are very beautiful objects, o[)alescent, and gleaming like a drop of molten gold. r\ Figs. 7G a and h show the egg with the exit hole of ( 3 0--J the larva. fig. of Met- The young make their exit through a large hole f5rfgiifarf•eaten in the end. The young bugs are brightly va-riegated with red and black, and their bodies bristle all over withspines. They grow more somber in color with each casting of the skin,and gradually approach the adult in form and color. OTHER SUCKING BUGS. Metapodius terminalis Dallas.—This species can, with ditticulty, bedistinguished from the preceding, and the same account may be givenof its life and habi
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