CHAITOPHORUS POPULEUS. 137 



with dark green ; usually has a well defined furcated 

 dorsal stripe. Legs short, green, with darker tarsi. 

 AVhole body covered with tufts of hair which spring 

 from small tubercles. Cornicles very small, little more 

 than perforated, wart-like projections. 



Sparsely scattered over the under sides of the leaves 

 of Salix caprea, Wimbledon and Wandsworth, Aug. 

 17th. 



I could not procure the winged forms. 



Passerini found it within the reflexed marofins of 

 the leaves of Saliv nigricans, " in montibus prope 

 Berceto." 



Chaitophoeus populeus, Kalt. Plate LXXXI, 

 fiofs. 3 — 6. 



AjjJiis po2)ulea, Kalt., Walk. 

 Lachnus pundatus, Burm. (?). 

 Cladohius populeus J Koch, Pass. 



Apterous viviparous female. . 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Size of body 0-080x0-040 2-02xl-01. 



Length of antennae 0*045 1'13. 



„ cornicles wart-like. 



Long oval, yellow or ochreous yellow, very hirsute, 

 the bristles proceeding from tufted tubercles. Head 

 rather brownish. Antennae yellow, with brown tips ; 

 seven distinct joints, the seventh variable in length, but 

 at least as long as the sixth. Abdomen arched and dis- 

 tinctly segmented, blotched with irregular brown 

 L'pots. Cornicles very shorty and appearing merely as 

 perforated warts. Tail rounded and inconspicuous. 

 Legs rather short. Rostrum reaches to the second 

 coxge. 



