164 BEITISH APHIDES. 



In the year 1856 Victor de Motschulsky communi- 

 cated to M. Menetries, of Helsingfors, certain entomo- 

 logical notes, amongst which he describes an apterous 

 Aphis with long upturned cornicles. He says : — " Les 

 Aphides se trouvent en tres grand nombre, surtout le 

 Lachrms dryoides, Germari ; et parmi lesquels ils se 

 trouve une espece que je nomme Apliioides smci/era, 

 qui resemble en peu a notre Aphis pinophila, mais qui 

 a les appendices de l'extremite de l'abdoinen tres long 

 et diriges vers la tcte. II parait que c'est l'Aphis qui 

 habitait l'arbre au succin, le Pinites succifer, Goep- 

 pert."* 



I have reproduced the small figure of this apterous 

 Aphis, which was embedded in a yellow amber mass ; 

 " the produce of some tree analogous to our thuja " 

 (Plate CXXXII, fig. 7). 



The same fine collection of ambers at Danzig, which 

 contained upwards of 700 examples of various sizes, 

 furnished four other examples of Aphides. Unfortu- 

 nately no figures have been yet given of these speci- 

 mens. They are catalogued by Prof. Menge amongst 

 insects of ttie Eocene, and from beds referable to the 

 Ligurian series. They are named respectively Ap h is 

 la/rgiflua t A. retrolacteus, A. longicomis, and Lachnus 

 glandulosus. 



Dr. George Carl Berendt issued the first volume of 

 his fine work on the organic remains of the ancient 

 world, as embedded in amber, in 1845. The second 

 volume did not appear till 1856. Dr. Berendi died in 

 1850, and his collaborateur, 0. L. Koch, shortly before 

 that period, viz. in 1849. The Orthoptera and Hemi- 

 |i1ci;i woe described by Prof. Germar, but the editing 

 of this second volume was by Dr. H. Hagen, and to this 

 portion the reader is referred for many details not suited 

 for this sketch of the amber Aphides. 



The succiniferous beds of the Baltic and Prussia are 

 referable to the " Molasse." They overlie, or rather 



* ' Etude Ent.,' V, p. 29, fig. 8. Edited by V. de Motschulsky, 1856. 

 f Mcnge, ' Progr. Petrischule,' Danzig, p. 19, 1859. 



