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`Q» A ·, are generally pale greenish, with dusky appendages; the adults ,
    ( have V-shaped black marks on the head, opening forward, a  
L ‘ · _   ` ~ air of black marks on the region of the body (thorax), just be-  
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, _-   g_ hind the head and some longitudinal dusky lines on the abdomen 1
° i t under and beyond the wings, and on the sides beneath. Males _`
_. .     Q are more generally blackish than females, and the front wings are i
i       i of a deep reddish color, not apparent in the female.
  gi    Lmag-winged. Fc/male. Length to the tips of folded wings,
'       0.33 inch. Fore wing, 0.268 inch long; hind wing 0.24 inch long.
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.:   5,   Short-u·mgccZ Female. Length to tip of abdomen 0.32 . 1
_ I -.22.    · inch. Fore wings 0.16 inch long; hind wing (rudimentary)
      1 0.09 inch long, triangular in outline.
  `   l Er . Translucent whitish when fresh. Nearly cylindrical,
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,;  aq l _ curved, the free end evenly rounded, the attached end with a
;- '_'' 'i{i  i . yellowish extension, thru which the young emerges. Length, 1 `
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`,. ;_·  _   .0484 inch; diameter at middle, 0.00:23 inch. The extension
    >.[ _ l at attached end striate, triangular in outline when the egg is
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g _?—i» ., tj E removed from the stem and laid flat. The eggs are thrust into
      in the central cavity of the stems, sometimes two or three close
  Eg;}    together, sometimes a dozen or more in a clump or series placed
Ft    i lengthwise of the cavity, the eggs projecting freely into the _
  ._  °   gi ` cavity, but retaining a. close attachment to the inner wall of
  5       .. the stem at the point where the puncture was made by the bug.
    HISTORY OF THE INSECT IN KENTUCKY
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    ig » This enemy of bluegrass was first observed in BlU€gl`EiS$
    W Kentucky in 1908, when a few specimens were swept from a blue-
      grass pasture at Lexington. Its injurious nature was not appar-
    t ent at the time. It gradually increased in numbers during the
  '.·'     years following and examples were picked up here and there
    . from time to time, tho it was not abundant enou li to attract tl10
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   l I attention of stockmen. Specimens were added to the Departnieiit
  ' Collection as follows: Lexington, May 23, 1908; Lexington, May
  10, 1913; Lexington, June 13, 1913; Lexington, June 4. 1917;
  , Pinckard, W'o·odford county, May 28, 1923; Versailles, Woocl-
      ford county, May 29, 1924; Lexington, Paris and \Vincheste1‘,
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