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PINE. LEAVES. 
260. 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. 
201- White-pine leap-hopper, Bythoscopus Strobi, Fitch. (Homoptera. 
Tettigoniidse.) 
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 yel¬ 
lowish with numerous black dots from which arise small spines. 
2G2- Pine Cixius, Cixius Pini, Fitch. (Homoptera. Fulgoridie.) 
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 longitudinal lines, its fore 
wings transparent but not clear and glassy, stained with smoky 
yellow forming a few transverse spots, their veins white alter¬ 
nated with numerous black dots, its logs pale with the thighs 
brown. 
2G3. Vernal DiRApniA, Dimphiavernalis, Fitch. (Homoptera. Psyllidie.) 
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 its whole length and a small 
notch in the middle of the anterior edge; the antennae project¬ 
ing 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. 
