804 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Fig. 273.— Pine Lachnus. A head and beak, lb labrum, tn mandibles; a, larva, male; b, female, body- 

 filled with eggs ; c, pupa (yellowish) ; g, odoriferous gland ; h, orifice of the " honey-tube "— Gisslerde^. 



143. 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.) 



