. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. THE SO-CALLED CUELEW BUG. 59 plant. Quite in accord mtli the foregoing, Mr. J. G. Sanders reared adults March 30, and again April 25, 190S, from Cyperus exaltatus, introduced from Egypt and growing on the department farm at Arlington, Va. The cultivated food plants are coin, lico, and peanuts, in impor- tance-according to the order given. DESCRIPTION AND LIFE HISTORY. THE EGG. (Fig. 18.) The egg appears to have been first observed b}'" Mr. A. N. Caudell, who noted the female ovipositing at Stillwater, Okla.,
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. THE SO-CALLED CUELEW BUG. 59 plant. Quite in accord mtli the foregoing, Mr. J. G. Sanders reared adults March 30, and again April 25, 190S, from Cyperus exaltatus, introduced from Egypt and growing on the department farm at Arlington, Va. The cultivated food plants are coin, lico, and peanuts, in impor- tance-according to the order given. DESCRIPTION AND LIFE HISTORY. THE EGG. (Fig. 18.) The egg appears to have been first observed b}'" Mr. A. N. Caudell, who noted the female ovipositing at Stillwater, Okla., July 18, 1895. The egg was described as white, mm. long and half as wide, oblong-oval in shape. Mr. E. O. G. Kelly, who studied the species carefully at Wellington, Kans., found eggs deposited June 17, 1911, to be "white," mm. long, one-third as wide, and ellip- tical in form. Dr. Chittenden described the egg as found at Arlington, Va., as con- siderably larger, measuring to mm. m length and only to mm. in diameter. The outline is subreniform-elliptical, one side havmg a tendency to straightness along the greater portion of its length. The color is dull, slightly yellowish white. The suiface is nearly smooth, with faint reticula- tion showing in ver}^ Imiited areas. The variation in size of the egg has also been observed by Mr. R. I. Smith, in Xorth Carolina. Mr. Kelly, m his studies, found eggs from June 16 to September 11, a period of nearly 3 months. The egg period varied from 4 to 6 days in June, in July 5, and from 6 to 8 days in September. In one case 58 eggs were secured from one female, and there was a possibility that she might exceed this number. Mr. Vernon King and the author found ovipositing adults and half-grown lan^ffi on Harve3's Xeck, about 15 miles southeast of Hertford, N. C, on June 20, 1911. This would mdicate that ovi- position was in progress about June i. Mr. Jas. A. Hyslop, of this bureau, and Mr. R. I. Smith of the Xo
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