. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. f Keedysville, Md., sent us a large series of specimens, withthe statement that the insect was very destructive on melon vines in hisvicinity during the season. On the 16th of the same month two colonies of this bug were foundon cucumber vines near Tennallytown, 1). 0. It was present at thistime in all stages except the egg. Later, on the 29th of September,larvae and nymphs were observed in the same locality on watermelonvines. August 25, 1898, a colony of nymphs, mostly of the secon
. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. f Keedysville, Md., sent us a large series of specimens, withthe statement that the insect was very destructive on melon vines in hisvicinity during the season. On the 16th of the same month two colonies of this bug were foundon cucumber vines near Tennallytown, 1). 0. It was present at thistime in all stages except the egg. Later, on the 29th of September,larvae and nymphs were observed in the same locality on watermelonvines. August 25, 1898, a colony of nymphs, mostly of the second stage,was found on squash growing on the experimental plat of this Depart-ment. The following week another colony was observed on thesegrounds, and during the second week of September the fourth stage ofthe nymphs was observed. By the 14th, or the beginning of the thirdweek, most of the nympbs were in the fourth stage; one, however,transformed to the fifth stage on this date. The same day a colonywas discovered at Tennallytown, D. C, in the same place where thespecies had been observed the previous THE NORTHERN LEAF-FOOTED PLANT-BUG. 45 PUBLISHED AND DIVISIONAL RECORDS. The first mention which I find of this species in literature is that ofDr. C. H. Hedges and the late Dr. Lintner, the former of whom men-tions its occurrence in large clusters of twenty or thirty individualsupon grape and corn stalk at Charlottesville, Ya., September 15. 1886(Country Gent., Oct. 7, 1886. p. 753). Dr. Lintner states that thespecies was supposed to have carnivorous habits. Mr. W. H. Ash-mead includes it in his enumeration of the enemies of the cotton plant(Insect Life, vol. vn, p. 320). In addition to the correspondence previously mentioned we havereceived complaints of injury from Messrs. A. H. Mundt, Fairbury, 111.,and Charles L. Snyder, Oakton, Ya. The former sent eggs and youngnymphs found on a hedge plant during June, 1894. From the latter,material was received that had been taken on
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