. The American entomologist. Entomology. stances excusable; for he and his comrades had almost completely cleared the potatoes of the Colorado gentlemen, and he probably concluded that the services of the Ladybird were no longer required there. The Spined Soldier-bug is very common everywhere in Illinois, Iowa and Mis- souri, but occurs more frequently on trees than on herbaceous plants. We caught eight or nine of them in about half an hour off Dr. Hull's fruit trees with his Curculio-catcher. Another species of the same genus (Arma, near modesta, Dallas) inhabits, in the larva and pupa states
. The American entomologist. Entomology. stances excusable; for he and his comrades had almost completely cleared the potatoes of the Colorado gentlemen, and he probably concluded that the services of the Ladybird were no longer required there. The Spined Soldier-bug is very common everywhere in Illinois, Iowa and Mis- souri, but occurs more frequently on trees than on herbaceous plants. We caught eight or nine of them in about half an hour off Dr. Hull's fruit trees with his Curculio-catcher. Another species of the same genus (Arma, near modesta, Dallas) inhabits, in the larva and pupa states, the nests of the Fall Web-worm {Hyplmntria textor, Harris), and slaughters the defenceless inhabitants without mercy. We have bred it from the larva to the perfect state, feeding it upon caterpillars. Another true Bug, that has been repeatedly seen by Mr. Riehl, of Alton, preying upon the Colorado larva, is the Bordered Soldier-bug [Fig. 43.] (Stirethis Jimbriatus, Say, Fig. 43). Unlike the Spiued Soldier- bug, this species is so conspicu- ously and prettily marked that it cannot easily be confounded 1'?W|||™S'with any other. We once met V^m^C ^i*-'^ seven or eight individuals in the web-nest of a small social '^"'"S°"iln-S"r''" caterpillar, that occurred on a weed; and we have seen it more than once with its beak immersed in the body of the larva of the Astcrias butterfly. It belongs to the same sub- group, and has the same short, robust beak, as the Spined Soldier-bug; but, unlike that species, it is by no means common. Another true Bug, still more elegantly marked [Fig.«.] than the preceding, the Many - banded Kobber {IlariMctor cinctus, Fabr., Fig. 44 a), was observed by Dr. Shimer, of Mt. Carroll, HI., to attack the Colorado larvre, and we have ourselves found it attacking the Colura—Yellow, white, and black. SamC lai'Va ill MiS- souri the present year. Like the Spined Soldier- bug, tills species is common, and inhabits trees more commonly
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