. Elementary entomology . FIG. 161. The chinch-bug. (Much enlarged) Adult at left; a, b, eggs ; c, newly hatched nymph ; </, its tarsus ; e, f, g, second, third, and fourth stages of nymph ; /i, leg of adult; /, tarsus of same ; z, proboscis, or beak. Hair lines indicate natural size. (After Webster and Riley) sntnrellns), an insect of a reddish color, with pale yellow stripes, with habits very similar to the one last mentioned, staining the cot- ton \vhere it punctures the bolls. Though common, it is by no means a serious pest of cotton, but is often injurious to ripening

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