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No. 145.] 
I have never succeeded in discovering any winged individuals 
of this species, and hence cannot decide with confidence as to its 
genus. The one jointed feet indicate that it pertains to the Family 
Coccidje of the Order Homoptera, and the facts in its history which 
are above recited, leave hut little doubt that it belongs to the ge¬ 
nus Coccus as restricted in systematic works at the present day. 
By many the white pine is much esteemed as a shade tree 
around dwellings, particularly upon their north and west sides, 
for breaking off the winds of our severe northern winters. It is 
also highly prized as an ornamental tree in those sections of our 
country where it does not grow naturally. Hence whatever re¬ 
tards the growth and impairs the health of these cultivated trees, 
becomes a matter of interest. I have repeatedly noticed this 
blight upon transplanted trees, but have never observed it upon 
trees growing in their native situations. 
There is every probability that scrubbing the affected parts of 
a tree with soap-suds, will prove a sovereign remedy for this as 
it is known to be for other species of lice. And this remedy will 
be of easier application here, than in most other cases w'here it is 
the small twigs of trees which are infested with these vermin. 
As Ihis blight is located upon the trunks, chiefly of young trees, 
it can be readily reached by the scrub-broom. The remedy is so 
simple and so easy of application, that no one should suffer the 
young pines in his yards to dwindle and become stinted and sick¬ 
ly from this cause. 
