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NOTES ON APHIDS. 
By G. O. Suns, 
Berkeley, California. 
Nectarosiphum rubicola Oestl., with description of the male. 
Alate viviparous female. General color, pale or green. Length 
of body, 3.8 mm. Width of abdomen, 1.6mm. Wing expansion, 
4.3mm. Head, pale or green, broader than long, width between 
the eyes, .45 mm. Beak, reaching second coxa, near the tip dusky. 
Antenna situated on frontal tubercle, pale except dusky rings at 
the distal end of III, IV and V, VI including spur dusky, length of 
articles: TI], 1.lamme; TV, :7 mm; V5 .55 mm. Vi,..3 1am spur, 
8 mm. Sensoria about 14 on III, one each on IV and VY. Pro- 
thorax wider than long, width, .6 mm., pale. Mesothorax slightly 
dusky, border with muscle lobes amber, width, 1 mm. Meta- 
thorax slightly dusky. Legs, distal one fifth the length of tibia and 
entire tarsi dusky, rest pale. Abdomen, pale, inflated. Corni- 
cles mostly dusky, often basal half pale, length, 1 mm. Cauda, 
pale. Wings hyaline with smoky area near the tips of forewings, 
expansion: forewing, 4.9 mm., hind wing, 2.7 mm. 
Apterous viviparous female. General color, pale or green. 
Length of body, 2.7 mm. Width of abdomen, 13 mm. Head, 
pale, broader than long. Beak reaches to third coxa, pale except 
apical half of third joint which is dusky. Length of antennal 
joist: TIT, .9 mm.; JV;).6mm.; V, 55 mm.; VI, .2 mm sispursd 
mm. Prothorax, pale. Thorax and abdomen, pale. Tibia dusky. 
Rest of legs color of the body. Cornicle, dark, slightly swollen 
