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same as our Eastern Leachelliis has been collected by Mr. Edwards at 

 Vancouver and also at Mendocino. 



Crambus atteJinatus Grote. 



This species has been collected about San Francisco. The Californian 

 specimens are a little brighter tinted and slightly exceed in size the 

 material I had before me from Vancouver. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF APHIS AFFECTING THE PINE. 



BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



Among our native forest trees, none, unless it is the oak, suffer more 

 from the depredations of insect enemies than the pine. Distributed as it 

 is — from the Arctic to the Tropics — climatologically speaking, it becomes 

 a prey to every conceivable form of insect life. 



Already its enemies may be reckoned by hundreds ; but notwithstand- 

 ing this, hardly a year goes by without some careful investigator adding 

 others to the list. It is not the intention of the writer to enter into full 

 details or enumerate all of its foes, but to call the attention of entomolo- 

 gists to a new Aphis affecting a pine in Florida, that has evidently been 

 overlooked by others. 



For the past two years we have detected numerous large brown plant- 

 lice upon the common pine of this region, Pinus anstralis, which for 

 want of time we have left unmolested. They cluster together upon the 

 new and tender branches, which they puncture with their remarkably long 

 beaks, causing the sap to exude and the branch upon which they exist to 

 become gummy and sticky. In their habits they are surprisingly shy and 

 timid. On disturbing them they invariably seek safety by hiding between 

 the needles of the pine ; indeed, even on hearing approaching footsteps, 

 we have observed them cling closer to the limb, while a few skelter off 

 where the needles are denser. 



In looking up literature on the subject, we find several species of 

 Aphides described and mentioned as existing upon pines, but none on 

 Pimis australis, nor will any of the descriptions agree with the species 

 under consideration. It belongs to the section Lac/mini as defined by 



