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Gcnus AMPHOROPHORA Buckton 



Amphorophora lactucae (Kalt.) (fig. n) 



Apterous virgogene. 



Color : Green to dull yellow-green. Eyes red. Antennae palé 

 vellow with tips of III, IV, V, VI ; bases of IV, V and VI, and all 

 of filament darkened. Cauda, genital and anal plates concolorous 



Fig. 11. — Amphorophora lactucae (Kalt.). Apterous virgogene : a, 

 antenna ; 6, segment III of antenna ; c, cornicle; d, cauda. Álate 

 virgogene : e, cornicle; f, cauda; g, antenna; h, segment III of 

 antenna. 



with body. Legs palé straw with tarsi and apical tips of tibiae 

 blackish. Cornicles greenish with darkened tip. Rostrum body-co- 

 lor with blackish apex. 



Morphological characters : Elongate oval with minute inconspi- 

 cuous hairs on the front and lateral margins. Antennae with III 

 provided with short spinelike hairs subequal to i/3 its greatest 

 breadth, and Avith from 7 to 9 small subcircular sensoria situated 

 on more or less a single row along the basal 2/3 of its length. Ros- 

 trum surpasses second coxae with its apex. Cornicles with smooth 

 tegument provided with a few cióse transverse imbrications on ex- 

 treme apical portion ; distinctly flanged. Cauda sub-ensiform with 

 about three pairs of lateral bristles. Tarsi with feeble to obsolete 

 imbrications. 



