444 Mr. F. Walker's Descriptions of Aphides. 



the liiiid-legs, which arc rather long and stout ; the shanks are 

 nearly straight : the wings are colourless and of tnoderate size ; 

 the veins are brown and strongly marked ; their borders are 

 clouded with brown ; the space between the rib- vein and the fore- 

 border of the wing is clouded as far as the brand, which is irre- 

 gularly spindle-shaped, and for the most part colourless ; the 

 first and the second branch-veins are nearly straight ; the third 

 is distinct at its source, inclined inwards, and forms two very 

 obtuse angles where it throws off its forks ; the first fork begins 

 soon after one- third, the second long after two-thirds, of the length 

 of the vein : in the hind-wings the space between the vein and 

 the fore-border is clouded for more than half the length of the 

 wing ; the tips of the other veins are also clouded : the feet, the 

 tips of the shanks, and the tips of the hind-thighs are brown ; 

 there is also a slight brown mark at the tip of each of the other 

 four thighs. 



Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



The oviparous wingless female. Found at the end of October. 

 The body and the limbs are hairy ; the former is pale orange, 

 and spindle-shaped : the head is black, slightly varied with orange, 

 hairy in front : the breast is pale yellow : there are four rows of 

 black spots along the back, the middle rows consisting of long 

 transverse spots, some of them confluent along the back of the ab- 

 domen ; there is also a transverse row of four nari*ow black streaks 

 on each interval between the large spots : the abdomen beneath 

 is orange ; its tip is yellow and its sides are varied with alternate 

 spots of pale yellow and black : the spots on the chest are larger 

 than those on the abdomen, and sometimes all the spots on the 

 latter ai'e nearly confluent : the feelers are yellow with black tips, 

 and about one-fourth of the length of the body : the legs are pale 

 yellow ; in the hind-legs the tips of the thighs, the shanks except 

 their tips, and the feet except the middle part, are black. 



The winged male. This also appears at the end of October, and 

 much resembles the winged female : the head and the abdomen 

 are orange, and the latter has some short black bands on its 

 back, those towards the tip are interrupted : the feelers are black, 

 yellow at the base, and about half the length of the body : the 

 wing-ribs are pale yellow : the wing-brands are brownish black. 



Ninth Group. 

 18. Aphis hifrons, n.s. 



A single insect found near London on the 20th of July, 1847, 

 on the alder ? 



The viviparous winged female. The body is yellowish brown and 

 thickly covered with white powder : the head short and broad ; the 



