. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . The wheel-bug, Prionidus crhtatus, in all its stages; natural size. numbers. Taking it altogether, we find in this family mainly forms that are beneficial to the farmer. There are a few other common species, also predaceous in character, but much smaller and more slender than the pre- ceding, belonging to the family Nabidcz. Our common species of the genera Nabis and Coriscus are yellowish in color, flat- tened above and rather roughened, with long legs, but other- wise
. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . The wheel-bug, Prionidus crhtatus, in all its stages; natural size. numbers. Taking it altogether, we find in this family mainly forms that are beneficial to the farmer. There are a few other common species, also predaceous in character, but much smaller and more slender than the pre- ceding, belonging to the family Nabidcz. Our common species of the genera Nabis and Coriscus are yellowish in color, flat- tened above and rather roughened, with long legs, but other- wise resembling in head and beak the usual predaceous form, except that the beak is longer and more slender. They are found on flowers and leaves, preying upon almost anything that they can conquer.
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