Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . infested bed in south Illinois,and probably feeds on the bed-bug. (American Entomolgist,p. .17.) The allied genera Prostemma (), and Coranus (C. subap-terns) are interesting on accountof their being generally found in an •[undeveloped imago state ; the latterbeing either entirely apterous or withthe fore wings rudimental, althoughoccasionally met with having the fourwings completely developed. thinks that, especially in Jtof
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . infested bed in south Illinois,and probably feeds on the bed-bug. (American Entomolgist,p. .17.) The allied genera Prostemma (), and Coranus (C. subap-terns) are interesting on accountof their being generally found in an •[undeveloped imago state ; the latterbeing either entirely apterous or withthe fore wings rudimental, althoughoccasionally met with having the fourwings completely developed. thinks that, especially in Jtof ., these apterousinsects acquire full sized wings, in accordance with the sameopinion of Spinola, whom he quotes. The type of the family is the genus RedtiritiH of Fabric-ins,which may be recognized by its second and third antenna!joints being much longer than the first, while the fourth ishair-like. The limbs are densely hirsute, and the beak is shortand stout. Reduviuspersonatus Linn., a black species, is saidto feed upon the bed-bug. The larva and pupa have the in-stinct to envelope themselves in a thick coating of particles of. HEMIPTERA. •lust (DeGeer) and so completely do they exercise this habitthat a specimen shut up by M. Brulle, and which had under-gone one of its moultings during its imprisonment, divestedits old skin of its coat of dust, in order to recover itself there-with. (AYestwood.) The Evayoras viridis Uhler MS. is said,by the Editors of the ik American Entomologist, to devour theplum curculio. In Harpactor the head is convex behind the eyes ; the ocelliare distant, knobbed, and the first antennal joint is as longas, and stouter than, the two succeeding ones together. Har-/xictnr Fabr. (Fig. 546 ; &, beak) attacks the larva ofthe Colorado Potato-beetle. Another member of this family,the Conorhinus ftanyinsuc/a of Leconte, is said to occur inbeds, its bite being very painful. (American Entomologist,p. ,S7.) COKISKK Latreille. In this
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