list of homopter0u3 insects. 1033 



294. Aphis setosa. 



Aphis setosa, Kalt. Ent. Zeit. Stett. vii. 172. 



Abdomen beset with spines. This species is perhaps one of the 

 group which is represented by A. Juglandis, &c. 



a — d. Pmssia. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



295. Aphis valida. 



Nigra, rohista, hirta ; antenna ferruginea, piloscB, apice nigrcB ; 

 scutellum ferrugineum ; pedes ferruginei, pilosi, tibiis apice 

 tarsisque nigris ; alcB subcinerece, venisfusco marginatis. 



Black, stout, hairy : feelers ferruginous, hairy, rather thick, a 

 little shorter than the body ; fourth joint hardly half the length of 

 the third; fifth, sixth, and seventh black; fifth as long as the 

 fourth ; sixth a little more than half the length of the fifth ; seventh 

 as long as the sixth, but much more slender: scutcheon ferruginous 

 nectaries spindle-shaped, about one-sixth of the length of the body 

 legs stout, ferruginous, hairy ; feet and tips of the shanks black 

 wings slightly gray; veins stout, black, clouded with brown; rib- 

 vein brown, forming a very obtuse angle beneath the rib-vein, which 

 is pale brown ; distance between the first and second veins at the 

 base about half that between them at the tips ; third hardly nearer 

 to the second at the tip than at the base, farther from the second at 

 the base than the second is from the first; third vein and its forks 

 slightly curved towards the fourth vein ; first fork at the tip a little 

 nearer to the second fork than to the third vein, a little farther from 

 the third vein than the third is from the second ; second fork very 

 little nearer to the fourth vein than to the first fork ; fourth vein 

 curved near the base, straight towards the tip, nearer to the second 

 fork than to the tip of the rib-vein. Length of the the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 4 lines. 



England. 



296. Aphis subtereanea. 



Viridis vel rufa ; antennis apice thoracis disco femoribus tibiisqtie 

 apice tarsisque obscuris ; alis limpidis, 



A. Ranunculi, Var. ? 



Dull green or pale red, stout, convex, somewhat oval : front al- 

 most straight : feelers stout, hardly half the length of the bodv ; 



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