394: Mr. F. Walker’s Descriptions of Aphides. 
is greenish black, or black, or brown, or pale brown, or bright 
yellow: the borders of the fore-chest and the fore-breast are 
yellow, or red, or reddish brown, or green: the abdomen is 
yellow, or green, or dark green, or reddish brown tinged with 
green ; its disc is usually more or less black, and it has sometimes 
one or two rows of black dots on each side: the feelers are black, 
but sometimes pale green at the base : the mouth is green, or pale 
green, or pale yellow; its tip is black : the tube at the tip of the 
abdomen is yellow: the nectaries are sometimes only one-sixth of 
the length of the body: the greater part of the hind-thighs is some- 
times black, and more rarely all the thighs are black from the 
middle to the tips, or even from near the base to the tips: the 
wing-ribs are pale yellow, or pale green, or yellowish white ; the 
rib-veins and the wing-brands are pale yellow or pale brown ; the 
other veins are pale brown or brown. 
Length of the body 3 line ; of the wings 2 lines. 
Variations in the wing-veins. The third vein has no second fork. 
It feeds on the following plants :— 
Leontodon taraxacum. 
Plantago lanceolata. 
Thalictrum minus. 
Ranunculus bulbosus. 
hirsutus. Mentha hirsuta. 
repens. Heliotropium Peruvianum. 
acris. Beta vulgaris. 
Aquilegia vulgaris. maritima. 
Papaver Rheeas. Calceolaria pimnata. 
Fumaria officinalis. Callistemma. 
Nasturtium officimale. Tussilago. 
Geranium Robertianum. 
Spergula arvensis. 
Cochlearia Armoracea. 
Alhiaria officinalis. 
Erysimum barbarea. Bunias Kakile. 
Capsella Bursa-pastoris. Galium Mollugo. 
Cakile maritima. Crocus. 
Brassica oleracea. Dianthus Caryophyllus. 
Rapa. prolifer. 
campestris. Tulipa. 
Napus. Fuchsia coccinea. 
Sinapis arvensis. globosa. 
alba. micrantha. 
nigra. Narcissus. 
Raphanus sativus. Mesembryanthemum. 
Raphanistrum. Hyacinthus. 
Dianthus. Verbena. 
Euphorbia Peplus. 
Crepis tectorum. 
Potentilla anserina. 
Pyrethrum inodorum. 
Tropxolum tricolor. 
Solanum tuberosum. 
Polygonum Persicaria. 
Pimelea sylvatica. 
Myosotis scorpioides. Myrtus. 
Inula dysenterica. Citrus. 
Digitalis. Ruscus androgynus. 
Sonchus. Cactus. 
And on many other hot-house, green-house, cultivated and wild 
plants which will be mentioned in a future notice of this Aphis. 
