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colorous rostrum, the shape of the antepenultimate segment of 

 the abdomen, and the form of the appendages, very clearly 

 pointed to this, the scarcest of our species of Panorpa. 



Notes on British Neuroptera (as well as on British Orthop- 

 tera and Odonata) during 1912 will be welcomed by the author 

 of this note. 



Kingston-on-Thames: June, 1912. 



A NEW STRAWBERRY APHIS. 



By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S., Hon. F.R.H.S., &c. 



MyzusfragaricB, nov. sp. 



Apterous Viviparous Female. — Very pale green, often semi- 

 transparent. Head, thorax, and abdomen covered with capitate 

 hairs. Antennge as long as the body ; basal segment rather large, 

 with a thick blunt swelling on the inner side ; second segment small ; 

 third long, not quite as long as the next two, which are equal ; the 

 sixth longer than the fourth and fifth ; the first with several, the 

 second with two large and some small capitate hairs, the third with 

 one or two on the inner side. Cornicles long and thin, almost trans- 

 parent, with faint incrassation ; projecting some distance beyond the 

 Cauda. Cauda pallid green, with two pairs of lateral hairs and a 

 median apical one. Legs pallid green, almost transparent ; tarsi 

 slightly dusky ; femora and tibiee with capitate hairs. Eyes blackish. 



Length, 1-1-5 mm. 



Winged Viviparoiis Female. — Head dark brown ; antennae dark 

 brown. Prothorax pale yellowish green ; mesothorax with dark 

 brown median area. Abdomen pale yellowish green, with a dusky 

 patch on the apical half, and a few small dusky spots on the basal 

 segments and dusky lateral spots. Legs pale yellowish green, apices 

 of femora and tibiae dusky, tarsi dark. Cornicles pale yellowish green. 

 Wings with smoky black veins and smoky black stigma. Capitate 

 hairs scantier than in the apterous form, four on the front of the head, 

 some on the two basal antennal segments, and short ones on the 

 body, the heads being only slightly swollen. Third antennal seg- 

 ment with 32-36 sensoria disposed all along it, fourth with 5-8 

 sensoria ; third segment about as long as the fourth and fifth ; sixth 

 a little longer than the fourth and fifth ; cornicles showing faint in- 

 crassation, not projecting beyond the pale green cauda, which has two 

 pairs of lateral hairs and one median apical one. A marked papilla 

 on the under wings with five curved apical bristles. 



Length of body, 2-2-5 mm. ; of wings, expanse, 4 mm. 



Food-plant. — Cultivated strawberries. 



Habitat.— Rounslow, Middlesex, and Rudgwick, Sussex. 



Observations. — Described from a colony sent me by the Board 

 of Agriculture in March. At first the apterous females only 

 occurred under the leaves ; later they and the nymphs swarmed 



