INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE PINE. 21T 
ish lines and dots, with a few small spots mostly on the outer margin, and crossed by 
three broad bluish-white bands, its legs pale yellowish with numerous black dots from 
which arise small spines. Fitch.) 
95. THE PINE LOUSE MIMIC. 
Camaranotus confuses Hirschl. var. occidentalis ? 
This bug closely resembles the pine Tachnus, or a dark ant, and is common running 
about the terminal twigs of the pine. (Named by Mr. Uhler.) 
96. THE GREEN PINE TETTIGONIA. 
Order HEMIPTERA; family CERCOPID®. 
Occurring in August in Maine on the pitch pine, a pretty, delicate green Tettigo- 
nia-like form, exactly of the color of the pine leaves. Pupa with some faint yellow 
markings. 
97. THE PINE CIXIUS. 
Cixius pint Fitch. 
Order HemIpTeraA; family FULGORID®. 
Puncturing the leaves and sucking their juices in May and June, a brownish black 
four-winged tly, 0.23 long, its thorax diamond-shaped, with three elevated longitudi- 
nal lines, its fore wings transparent but not clear and glassy, stained with smoky yel- 
low forming a few transverse spots, their veins white alternated with numerous black 
dots, its legs pale with the thighs brown. (Fitch.) 
98. THE VERNAL DIRAPHIA. 
Diraphia vernalis Fitch. 
Order HEMIPTERA; family PSYLLID®. 
Upon the leaves, puncturing them and sucking their juices, a small orange yellow 
four-winged fly, 0.15 long, with a square flattened head concave on its upper side and 
with a slight impressed line along the middle of its whole length and a small notch in 
the middle of the anterior edge; the antennee projecting forward from the anterior 
corners of the head, short and thread-like, of the same length with the head, their 
basal joint largest and forming one-fourth part of their total length, their tips black 
and ending in two short fine bristles of unequal length; the fore wings thick and 
leathery, feebly transparent, dull pale brownish yellow; the breast and hind breast 
coal black, and the legs dull whitish. (Fitch.) 
99. THE WHITE PINE SCHIZONEURA. 
Schizoneura pinicola Thomas. ; 
Order HEMIPTERA; family APHID. 
Feeding on the tender shoots of the young white pines in Illinois, their presence 
indicated by slender snow-white silky webs, and usually covered with a clear white, 
cottony secretion which appears to shoot out from the body in little ribbon-like flakes; 
the insects pale green. (Thomas.) 
