. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. PENTATOMID BUGS OF THE GENUS EUSCHISTUS. 75 THE BROWN COTTON-BUG. (Euschistus servus Say.) DISTRIBUTION. Dr. p. K. Uhler states" that Euschistus servus (PI. I, fig. 2; text figs. 12, 13) inhabits Texas, New Mexico, Cahfornia, ''Dakota," Ilhnois, Maryland, and the Southern States generally. Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, who possesses the most extensive collection of the Penta- toniidse of America, states ^ that he has not seen types of this species from north of New Jersey and Ohio or west of Kansas, Texas, and e
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. PENTATOMID BUGS OF THE GENUS EUSCHISTUS. 75 THE BROWN COTTON-BUG. (Euschistus servus Say.) DISTRIBUTION. Dr. p. K. Uhler states" that Euschistus servus (PI. I, fig. 2; text figs. 12, 13) inhabits Texas, New Mexico, Cahfornia, ''Dakota," Ilhnois, Maryland, and the Southern States generally. Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, who possesses the most extensive collection of the Penta- toniidse of America, states ^ that he has not seen types of this species from north of New Jersey and Ohio or west of Kansas, Texas, and eastern New Mexico. In Texas the species is of common occurrence throughout the eastern half of the State, being much more common in the north- ern portion of this section than in the southern por- tion. Toward the western and northwestern portions of the State the species grad- ually diminishes in num- bers, possibly owing partly to decrease in cotton acreage. In Louisiana the brown cot- ton-bug is found throughout the State, though appar- ently, as in Texas, is more common in the central and northern than in the south- ern portion. POOD PLANTS. The brown cotton-bug has ^^^- 13.—The brown cotton-bug: Nymph, fifth instar. been taken on several other Enlarged 6 diameters. (Original.) plants in addition to cotton, but specific records of actual feeding have not been made except in the case of specimens found feeding on the fruit of the orange in Florida,'^ and a specimen which the writer has observed feeding on green fruit and twigs of peach in confinement. The agents of the Bureau of Entomology who were connected with the cotton" boll weevil investigations have collected this species in Texas and Louisiana on the following plants: Hehanthus (three locahties), corn (two locahties), Heterotheca sulaxillaris (two locahties), Rud- «Bul. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., No. 5, second series; List of Hemiptera, p. 20, 1876. 6 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc; XXX, p. 45, 1904. c Insect Life,
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