Fig. 85.—Cantao Oceliatus (Mag.)
These insects are generally of a red colour, with black bands and spots.
Several species are very injurious to cultivated plants. One of the most destructive of all is Blissus leucopterus, a black insect with white fore wings, each of which is marked with a large black triangular spot on the outer edge. It measures about an eighth of an inch in length. The young larva is red. In the United States this insect, which abounds to a considerable extent, is called the "Chinch Bug."
Fig. 86.—Menenotus Lunatus.
Fig. 87.—Copius Intermedius.
Family 4, Pyrrhocoridæ.—This family of bugs abounds in all parts of the world, and in Europe and Britain is undoubtedly the most numerously represented of all the families of bugs. A very common species in this country found on nettles is Phytocoris tripustulatus, which is about one-sixth of an inch in length, and generally yellowish in colour.