146 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
This is evidently Boyer de Fonscolombe’s Aphis hibernacu- 
lorum, found by him on Daphne indica in February in an 
orangery in France. He describes the antenne as being less 
than the length of the body in the apterous female; they are 
usually as long or longer in Macrosiphum, but in a few species 
they may be slightly shorter. The long cornicles and cauda 
undoubtedly place it in this genus, and I feel confident that the 
alate described here are Fonscolombe’s Daphne species. It comes 
in the pist group, and so in Mordwilko’s new genus Acyrthosiphon 
(‘ Fn. d. 1. Russe.,’ i, p. 75, 1914). 
12. Macrosiphum piceella, nov. sp. 
Alate viviparous fenale-—Green; head brownish-green ; pronotum 
greenish ; thoracic lobes brown; abdomen with four black lateral 
spots before the cornicles. Antenne longer than the body, dark 
brown except the two basal segments and the base of the third; the 
first segment larger than the second; the third a little longer than 
the fourth ; the fourth a little longer than the fifth; sixth a little 
longer than third, its flagellum about five times as long as the basal 
area; third segment with 10 sensoria along one side nearly extending 
to the tip of the segment. Proboscis pale, reaching to nearly the 
second coxe, dusky at the tip, apical segment narrower and longer 
than the penultimate. Legs green, black at apices of femora and 
tibiee, and with black tarsi; very short hairs on the tibiz. Cornicles 
long, cylindrical, narrow, green, dark at apex; markedly imbricated, 
with a few irregular reticulations at the apex, reaching nearly on to 
the apex of the cornicles. Cauda pale yellowish, with three pairs 
of lateral hairs and one dorsal apical one; very spinose. Anal plate 
pale yellowish; finely spinose. Wings with brown veins; the 
stigma, costa, and cubitus yellowish-brown. 
Length, 2 mm. 
Localitykx—Woking, Surrey, March 17th, 1913. 
Food Plant.—Picea excelsa. 
Described from a single alate female, which was found 
surrounded by several pale green larve on a Spruce needle. 
The cornicles have marked large imbrications and the 
antenne are characteristic, but they arise from smaller frontal 
tubercles than in Macrosiphum proper. However, as the frontal 
tubercles are present, although short, I still place it in Macro- 
siphum, owing to the non-vasiform cornicles of Rhopalosiphum 
aud the uncertain status of the genus Myzus. 
This is the only other Spruce Aphis I have seen or known of 
described except Walker’s Aphis abietina, which it certainly 1s 
not. 
13. Rhopalosiphum tulipella, nov. sp. 
Alate viviparous female——Head and thorax jet black and very 
shiny; a pale narrow anterior pronotal band and a pale: dull 
yellowish one behind the black pronotum. Abdomen shiny dusky 
