88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" The caterpillar is downy and bimucronate behind." And the chrysalis : 

 " The pupa is suspended by the tail ; it is angulated, bimucronate on the 

 front." Mucronate means in his glossary " terminating in a sharp point." 

 That will do for the caterpillar, as it is tailed, but the chrysalis is wrongly 

 described, its head case being square, without sharp points, or processes. 

 Bois. and Lee. give a very fair representation of the chrysalis after Abbot, 

 but the caterpillar is badly done, the head and its processes being quite 

 out of drawing. Boisduval's description is drawn from the figure, not 

 from nature, and of course is wholly incorrect, and he remarks that the 

 two points which surmount the head spring up in the form of ears 

 (s'eleveut en forme d' oreilles), as indeed they do, funnily enough, in the 

 cut. The face is as that of a grasshopper, and the " ears " are as of a 

 kangaroo, and the whole thing foreshadows a "gamesome and frolicsome' 

 butterfly. 



ON THE APHIDID^ OF FLORIDA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



(Paper No. j. ) 



Section Siphonophorini. 

 Genus Siphonophora, Koch. 



The species of this genus already described from North America axe 

 as follows : 



1. S. nidbeckice., Fitch. 



2. " ambrosicB, Thomas. 



3. " roscB, Reaum. A variety of this species I find here on culti- 

 vated roses and on the wild Cherokee rose. It differs very considerably 

 from Prof Thomas' description, and may be known as S. floridcz. 



I submit following description : 



6". rosce, var. Jloridce, n. s. 



Wingless female. — Length .07 inch. Elongate ovate; pale shining 

 green ; eyes red ; beak very pale and short, not reaching to middle coxse, 



