802 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



134. The pine anomala. 



Anomala pinicola Melsheimer. 



Order Coleoptera ; family Scarab.eid,e. 



Feeding on the leaves in June and July, beetles resembling the common May beetle. 

 No, 76, but of a much smaller size, being only 0.35 long, black, shining, their wing- 

 covers slightly tinged with chestnut with the suture and outer margin broadly black, 

 their antennae pale dull yellowish, and their feet pitchy black. I only know this 

 species from specimens from the Sonth, but as it occurs in Pennsylvania it will proba- 

 bly be found also in our own State. (Fitch.) 



135. The pine clastoptera. 



Clastoptera pini Fitch. 



Order Hemjptera ; family Cercopid^. 



Puncturing the leaves and sucking their juices, in July, a small shining broad oval 

 tree-hopper 0.14 long, of a black color, its head pale yellow with a black band ou its 

 anterior margin, its thorax prettily sculptured with fine tranverse lines and with a 



Fig. 272.— Larva of Clastoptera on pine ; a, side view. 



pale yellow band anteriorly, its wing-covers with a broad hyaline white margin on 

 the outer side, interrupted with black back of the middle and having a shining black 

 dot near the tip, its under side and legs pale yellow. (Fitch.) 



136. The testaceous clastoptera. 



Clastoptera testacea Fitch. 



A similar insect to the preceding, but of a pale yellow color, 0.20 long, its scutel 

 darker tawny red or yellow, its wing-covers with a shining black dot near the tip, 

 and often with a black dot upon each side of the breast. Appearing upon pines and 

 also on oaks the latter part of July and in August. (Fitch.) 



137. The white-pine leaf-hopper. 



Bythoscopus strobi Fitch. 



Order Hemiptera ; family Cercopid.e. 



Puncturing the leaves and sucking their juices in May, an oblong tawny yellow or 

 yellowish brown leaf-hopper, 0. 20 long, its wing-covers inscribed with numerous 

 blackish 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.) 



