STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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PINK. LEAVES. 
207* Pinb-lrAf Chermks, Chernies Pinijbluz , new species. (Homoptera. 
Aphid®.) 
Stationary upon the leaves, usually towards their ends, punc¬ 
turing them and sucking their juices, a very small black fly 0.08 
long to the tip of its abdomen, and 0.12 to the end of its wings, 
which are dusky gray, its abdomen dusky red and slighty 
covered with fine cottony down. 
The females of these insects do not extrude their eggs. Cling¬ 
ing closely to the leaf with their heads towards its base, they 
die, their distended abdomens appearing like a little bag filled 
with eggs. The outer skin of the abdomen soon perishes and 
disappears, leaving the mass of eggs adhering to the side of the 
leaf, but completely covered over and protected by the closed 
wings of the dead fly. I have met with the dead females thus 
adhering to the leaves the first of July, and have noticed the 
same insects on the leaves in full life and vigor the middle of 
May. 
The rib vein of the fore wings runs straight to the outer margin forward of 
the tip, and gives off from its middle on the outer side a very oblique branch 
which runs to the outer margin, its tip producing a slight angular projection 
of the edge of the wing, and the whole space on the outer side of the rib vein 
beyond this branch is more opake than the rest of the wing and of a smoky 
yellowish color. From its inner side the rib vein sends off three simple 
oblique veins, the last one of which ends in the extreme tip of the wing. The 
hind wings have an angular point on their outer side beyond the middle, and 
a longitudinal rib vein, which, forward of its middle sends off a branch almost 
transversely inward, its tip curved backward. The antennal are short, thread¬ 
like, and composed of four or five small joints. It will hence be seen that this 
insect is a true Chermes—the first species of this genus that has been dis. 
covered in this country. 
2G8. Pine-leaf scale-insect, dspidiotus Pinifolu e, Fitch. (Ilomoptera 
Coccidise.) 1 
Fixed upon the sides of the leaves, exhausting them of their 
juices; small oblong flatfish white scales, with a pale yellow 
spot upon their pointed end. See Transactions, 1855, page 
488. 
