92 BRITISH APHIDES. 



rounded. Antennas with five nearly equal joints. 

 Legs pale and short. Rostrum stout and short. 



Taken under tufts of grass, such as Poa annua, 

 covering the nests of ants, and exactly in the same 

 situations as noted in the preceding species. They 

 were found at Beckenham during February. 



Endeis carnosa, Bucldon. Plate CXXIX, figs. 5 — 8. 



Endeis bella 9 Koch ? 



Viviparous female. 



Body circular, much domed. Uniformly whitish- 

 yellow, flesh-coloured, or pink. Brown at the tail. 

 Antennas short, with five nearly equal joints and the 

 usual tubercle. With age the third joint lengthens. 

 Head very broad, with a brown dot on the vertex. 

 Eyes very small and brown. Legs exceedingly short, 

 hardly produced beyond the circumference of the 

 body. Cornicles none. Cauda, viewed from under- 

 neath, cylindrical and truncated. Tarsi with two 

 minute claws. The whole insect is finely pilose. On 

 the vertex the hairs are discoid and capitate. 



Captured in February in an Ant's nest with several 

 other Aphides, including Trama and Paracletus. They 

 had many young wood-lice (Oniscus) in their company. 

 Taken at Beckenham. 



Genus XXXV.— RHIZOBIUS,* Burm. 



Rostrum very short, rises between the first coxas. 

 Antennas very short, five-jointed, the first four joints 



* From /J«£iW, a rootlet; /3u5w, I live. 



