26 BRITISH APHIDES. 



lateral dots. Wing-cases tipped with black Tail 

 black. Legs dark olive. 



Winged viviparous female. 



Incli. Millimeti'es. 



Expanse of wings 0*240 6'19. 



Length of antennae 0*070 1*77. 



cornicles O'OIO 0-025. 



Size of body 0'065 X 0-030 1*64 X 0-76 



Head and thorax broad. Abdomen carinated, green. 

 Antennoe black, third joint slightly serrated. Eyes 

 dark brown. Head, band on prothorax, whole of 

 thorax, and a narrow crossbar above the tail, 

 black. Cornicles as in the larva. Legs brownish 

 yellow, with black femoral and tibial joints, and black 

 tarsi. Canda green. Wing-insertions greenish yel- 

 low. Stigmata pale ashy grey. Veins brown. 



The underside green, with black coxa3 and black anal 

 and vaginal spots. Rostrum reaches to the second 

 coxa, and rises from a black buccal patch. 



Taken at Edgware and at Wimbledon towards the 

 middle of June. 



This insect clusters in thousands amidst the flower- 

 stalks, and also under the leaves of both the honey- 

 suckles, Lonicera xylostei and Lonicera periclyneum. 

 It often converts branches of these flowers into dis- 

 gusting, sticky, and moving masses of life. 



The species is rather local and particular in its 

 haunts. 



SiPHOCORYNE FCENicuLi, Pass. Plate XLY,* figs. 4 — 6. 

 Apterous viviparous female. 



* An error has occurred in the lettering of PI. XLY. Figs. 4 — 6 

 relate to Sipliocoryne fceniculi, and figs. 1 — 3 to S. caprece. 



