4IO NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Ai;'athis. An Ichneumon, C r e m a s t u s r e t i n i a e Cress., was reared 

 from this insect by Messrs Riley and Howard. The writer also succeeded 

 in breeding- from this insect an exceedingly small four winged t1y which 

 was determined by L)r Ashmead as a species of .Stenomesius. 



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 1884 Saunders, William. Km. .Sor. Ont. Rep't 1883, p. 58 



1890 Packard, A. S. U. S. Knt. ('(im. 5: 742-45 



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Pitch midge 



Ccc/(/o;/n'i(' rcs/)//io/(i ( )sten-.Sacken 



Footless orange gru1)s o( cur in clear or wliitish pitch masses on the underside of 

 pitch pine branches. 



This interesting insect has been under general observation at Karner 

 for several years, where it ^vas present in con.siderable nimiljers on some 

 trees. The species may be easily recognized liy the pecidiar, whitish 

 masses of pitch illustrated on plate 20, hgin-e 2. They hang from the 

 underside of limbs ancl occasionally occiu' in numbers on the central stem. 

 During warm weather drops of pitch may lall at times from the masses. 



Life history. The <'ggs <.)f this species have been observed by Miss 

 Lida S. Eckel, who states that they are l)right orange and arranged 

 regularly, projecting radially about the equator of the spherical pitch drop. 

 She states that in the case of specimens under observation, eggs were 

 deposited only on fresh pitch and never on old, hardened hnnps or on 

 twigs or leaves. No new masses of pitch ap|)eared on the stems, as woidd 

 have been the case hatl the insect ptmcttu'ed th<.- l)ark for the inn-pose 

 of starting an exudation. .She therefore concludes that this insect takes 

 advantage of fresh pitch masses, and as a ride there are plenty of them 

 occurrinir under normal ci^iditions. .She states that the young larvae 



