cii Mr. F. Walker's 



Ochsenheimer, Schmet. Eur. iii. 172, supposed to be identical with 

 the fusca of Haworth, Lep. Brit. 157, both, as I am informed by 

 Mr. Stephens, described in the same year, 1810. 



B. Antennae 13 — 18 jointed = the genus Fumea of Haworth, 



a. Wings concolorous ; containing the species nitidella of Hubner, Tin. 



Tab. 1, fig. 6, and also radiella of Curtis, Brit. Ent. Tab. 332, which 

 that author considers distinct from all the continental species figured 

 by Hubner: this subject, however, requires further investigation. 



b. Wings reticulated ; containing the species undulella of Fischer, Abbild. 



zur Berich. und Ergaenz. p. 86, Tab. 38, fig. 3, a — c, and reticella of 

 Newman, Zool. App. xciv. 



In conclusion I may state that these insects will well repay a more rigid investi- 

 gation than we have hitherto vouchsafed them, not simply as regards specific differ- 

 ences and synonymy, although these points are quite worthy of further research, but 

 more especially as regards the three questions proposed above, all of which are open 

 to grave consideration. From the recently published ' List of British Lepidoptera,' 

 by Mr. Doubleday, they are entirely omitted, with the view of including them amongst 

 the Tineidce : and Mr. Stainton has in like manner excluded them from his catalogue 

 of Tineidce, under the impression that they range more properly with the Bombyces. 

 From the published lists of British Phryganidae they are also absent, so that they may 

 be said at the present moment to have no locw standi in British Entomology, and 

 therefore we have arrived at a time when the proposed investigation has become de- 

 sirable. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. VII. — Descriptions of new British Aphides. By Francis Walker, Esq., 

 F.L.S., G.S., &c. 



, Aphides on the Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris). 



The wingless viviparous female. — The body is oval, convex, pale grass-green : the 

 antennae are brown, pale green at the base, longer than the body: the eyes are dark 

 brown ; the rostrum is pale green, with a brown tip ; the tubes are pale yellow, with 

 brown tips, and nearly one-fourth of the length of the body : the legs are pale yellow, 

 long and slender ; the tarsi and the tips of the tibiae are brown. 



In the middle of May. 



First variety. The body is pale yellowish green, smooth and shining : the an- 

 tennae aie pale yellow ; the tips of the terminal joints are darker: the rostrum is pale 

 yellow ; its tip and the eyes are black : the tubes have black tips, and are as long as 

 one-fourth of the body : the tarsi are black. 



The winged viviparous female. — While a pupa it is nearly elliptical, rather flat, 

 dull whitish green, tinged with red and with darker green: the limbs are pale yellow; 

 the antennae have brown tips, and are more than half the length of the body : the tip 

 of the rostrum and the eyes are black : the tubes have black tips, and are as long as 



