LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 1033 



294. Aphis setosa. 

 Aphis setosa, Kalu Ent, Zeit. Stett. vii. 1 72. 



Abdomen beset with spines. This species is perhaps one of the 

 group which is represented by A. Juglandis, &e. 



a — d. Prussia. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



295. Aphis valida. 



Nigra, robmta, hirta ; antennae ferruginece, pilosa, apice nigra ; 

 scutellum ferrugineum ; pedes ferruginei, pilosi, tibiis apice 

 tarsisque nigris ; alee subcinerea, venis fusco marginatis. 



Black, stout, hairy : feelers ferruginous, hairy, rather thick, a 

 little shorter than the body ; fourth joint hardly half the length of 

 the third; fifth, sixth, and seventh black; fifth as long as the 

 fourth ; sixth a little more than half the length of the fifth ; seventh 

 as long as the sixth, but much more slender: scutcheon ferruginous 

 nectaries spindle-shaped, about one-sixth of the length of the body 

 legs stout, ferruginous, hairy ; feet and tips of the shanks black 

 wings slightly gray; veins stout, black, clouded with brown; rib- 

 vein brown, forming a very obtuse angle beneath the rib-vein, which 

 is pale brown ; distance between the first and second veins at the 

 base about half that between them at the tips ; third hardly nearer 

 to the second at the tip than at the base, farther from the second at 

 the base than the second is from the first; third vein and its forks 

 slightly curved towards the fourth vein ; first fork at the tip a little 

 nearer to the second fork than to the third vein, a little farther from 

 the third vein than the third is from the second ; second fork very 

 little nearer to the fourth vein than to the first fork ; fourth vein 

 curved near the base, straight towards the tip, nearer to the second 

 fork than to the tip of the rib-vein. Length of the the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 4 lines. 



England. 



296. Aphis subterranea. 



Viridis vel rufa ; antennis apice thoracis disco femoribus tibiisque 

 apice tarsisque obscuris ; alis limpidis. 



A. Ranunculi, Var. ? 



Dull green or pale red, stout, convex, somewhat oval : front al- 

 most straight : feelers stout, hardly half the length of the body ; 



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