. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . etween joints 1 and 2, the othersplaced on a lateral series of swellings, commencing with joint i. Joints 4—11 inclusive, each with Ssubstigmatal concolorous shiny plates (Fig. 16, a), the upper row lateral and divided from thesecond by a longitudinal depression: the second row forming tubercles which are retracted or pro-jected at will. Head (Fig. 16, b, under side; c, upp
. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . etween joints 1 and 2, the othersplaced on a lateral series of swellings, commencing with joint i. Joints 4—11 inclusive, each with Ssubstigmatal concolorous shiny plates (Fig. 16, a), the upper row lateral and divided from thesecond by a longitudinal depression: the second row forming tubercles which are retracted or pro-jected at will. Head (Fig. 16, b, under side; c, upper side), honey-yellow, rounded, slightly flat-tened in front; epistoma and labrum of same color: mandibles darker, triangular, with the inneredge slightly excavated near the tip; antenna; apparently two-jointed, short and with the terminaljoint often bifid; maxilke well developed, the inner lobe furnished with strong hairs; maxillarypalpi prominent, 4-jointed; labium sub-obsolete; labial palpi forming simply two small piliferoustubercles. Legs scaly, pale, setous, and terminating in a brown claw. Anal joint not horny , !>— inch. Described from numerous specimens. THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 35. THE HAELEQUIN CABBAGE-BUG.—.S^rac/urt [Murgantia} histnonica, Halm. (Hpteroptera, Scutelleridic.) Prior to the year 1870 the insectwhich forms the subject of this sketchwas not known to occur in Missouri. Ithas of late years been gradually travel-ing towards us from the more southernStates, and has already made its presencea little too manifest in some of our south-ern counties, and in Kansas I have metwith it at a latitude higher than St. extends to Guatemala, and is found inMexico; and it varies very much, as mostspecies are found to do when their geographical distribution is studied. Asit extends southward we find the dark colors predominating, and becomingmore intensified and brilliant, and Stal has described a species (Murgantiammida) from Mexico, w
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