PINE BUGS. 803 
138. The pine-louse mimic. 
Camaranotus confusus Hirschl. var. occidentalist 
This bug closely resembles the pine Lachnus, or even a dark ant, 
and is common running about the terminal twigs of the pine. I have 
observed it in abundance in Maine. (Named by Mr. Uhler.) 
139. The green pine tettigonia. 
Order Hemiptera ; family Cercopid^e. 
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. 
140. The pine cixius. 
Cixius pini Fitch. 
Order Hemiptera; family Fulgorid^e. 
Puncturing the leaves and sucking their juices in May and June, a brownish black 
four-winged fly, 0.23 long, its thorax diamond-shaped, with three elevated longitu- 
dinal lines, its forewings transparent but not clear and glassy, stained with smoky 
yellow, forming a few transverse spots, their veins white, alternated with numerous 
black dots, its legs pale with the thighs brown. (Fitch.) 
141. The vernal diraphia. 
Diraphia vernalis Fitch. 
Order Hemiptera ; family Psyllid^e. 
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 antennse 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 forewings thick and 
leathery, feebly transparent, dull pale brownish yellow ; the breast and hind breast 
coal black, and the legs dull whitish. (Fitch.) 
142. The common pine aphid. 
Lachnus strobi. 
This is the most common aphid on the white pine, and is at times 
very destructive to young trees. It has been for several years "a great 
pest on the pines on the estate of H. G. Bussell, esq., at East Green- 
wich, E. I. The best remedy is spraying the bushes with insecticides. 
