. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 20 Aside from their preference for fruit as food, the species of Lepto- glossus very closely resemble the squash bugs (Anasa) in man}' of the details of life economy. The eggs are of similar color and net-veined like those of Anasa, but are of different shape and deposited length- wise instead of in somewhat irregular masses. During the early stages of the nymph the predominating color is red, but in the last stage the dose resemblance to Anasa is (juite evident. In the length of the stages of the life cycle the
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 20 Aside from their preference for fruit as food, the species of Lepto- glossus very closely resemble the squash bugs (Anasa) in man}' of the details of life economy. The eggs are of similar color and net-veined like those of Anasa, but are of different shape and deposited length- wise instead of in somewhat irregular masses. During the early stages of the nymph the predominating color is red, but in the last stage the dose resemblance to Anasa is (juite evident. In the length of the stages of the life cycle the two genera do not appear to differ. THE EGG AND OVIPOSITION. The eggs are laid in the same manner as those of L. phyllo])u>p\is, however, all that have been observed being pale bronze to dark ])ronze-brown, none of thi^n golden. The eggs are semicj'lindricul, looking from one end, as shown in ffgure 3, t', and are rather strongly ffattened on the lower surface, where attached to a plant. The outline, as seen from above, is short ol^long, the eggsl)cing placed so close together end to end that they form what appears to be a stiff', cylindrical rod, of which each egg is a joint or cell. At one end of the ^gg^ covering a little more than half of the distance from that extrem- ity to the other, there is a circular area with a surrounding circle of light color and ])earing a transverse curved row of This cir(;ular area comes off' like a trap- door (<?) for the issuance of the young. Under a microscope of mod- erately high power the entire surface is seen to be finely reticulate, with rather regular pentagonal and hexagonal areas (c/). The length of an Qgg is about '"'", and the width ;"", the height being a trifle less. A chain of eggs is shown at h (fig. 3), and the sculpture of an egg at d. Chains vary in length from those having half a dozen eggs, and measuring about three-eighths of an inch, to others having 26 eggs and measuring H inches
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