APHIS HEDER^. 75 



Aphis hedee/e, Kalt. Plate LX, figs. 1, 2. 

 Kalt., Walk., Koch, Pass. 



Apterous viviparous female. 



Inch. Millimotves. 



Size of body 0-055 X 0-035 1-39x0-88. 



Length of antennse 0-030 0-76. 



cornicles 0-005 0-12. 



Grlobose, rather flat. Body uniformly dull brown. 

 Head broad. Eyes pale brown. Nectaries very short, 

 dark brown or black. Cauda small, brown or black. 

 Legs pale brown or else whitish, with black tarsi and 

 black femoral and tibial points. Legs and cauda hairy. 



Winged viviparous female. 



Colour generally like the apterous insect, dull brown. 

 Thoracic lobes rather darker. Legs ochreous or pale 

 brown, with black tarsi and black femoral and tibial 

 points. Eostrum reaches to the third coxse. Wings 

 rather large, with yellowish insertions, blackish stigma, 

 and brown veins. 



Numerous, on the young shoots of the ivy, Hcdera 

 heUcV, at Chichester and other places, during June. 



Another Aphis, ^. ilicis of Kaltenbach, less commonly 

 infests the holly, Ilex aquifolium. I quite agree with 

 Mr. Walker that this insect should be included among 

 the synonyms of A. hederoi. Nevertheless, Mr. Walker 

 says he failed in getting the Aphides to exchange their 

 food-plants when he tied a shoot of ivy, covered with 

 A, hederce, to a young shoot of holly. Similarly I have 



