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numerous incomplete rings, the 4th shorter than the 5th, the latter 

 subequal to the 6th, anterhinarial conical and short; rostrum long and 

 reaching to the 2nd abdominal segment fore -wings ample, somewhat 

 twice as long the body, stigma long, lanceolate, at the apex abruptly 

 ended, stigmatic nervure opens near the middle of it, media simple, 

 at the base obsolete, the first 2 obliques distinctly separated from each 

 other at the bases, media being in parallel to the stigmatic nervure; 

 hind wings with 2 obliques, at the bases not widely separated from each 

 other and the cubitus, where the obliques open, is much incurved: me- 

 sonotum with 2 large oval waxgland's plates; abdomen with incon- 

 spicuous cornicles and distinct cauda, gonapophyses as long as wide; 

 legs moderately long. 



Genotype - Prociphilus humeliae Sehr. 

 We have in Japan only the following one species. 



1. Prociphiius bumeliae Sehr. (PL XI, f. 4, 1, b) 

 Aphis bumeliae Schrank, Fauna boic. II, P. 215 (1802). 

 Pemphigus bumeliae Kalt. Monog, P. 184 (1843). 

 Prociphilus bumeliae Koch. Aphid. P. 280, f. 352, 353 (1857). 

 Winged viviparous female - Body oblong, dark brown, abdomen ful- 

 vous or yellowish brown, with a greenish tinge; rostrum fulvous, reach- 

 ing beyond the base of the abdomen, at the extreme apex fuscous; 

 antennae fuscous, at the joints hyaline, rings of the 3rd joint 23, the 

 4th 11, the 5th 15, the 6th 7, which are narrow and not complete, 

 anterhinarial conical, about 1/7 the length of the postrhinarial, vertex 

 with 2 yellowish oblong spots; mesonotum in the middle with 2 yel- 

 lowish oblong waxgland's plates; wings subhyaline, somewhat smoked, 

 veins fulvous, on each side of which somewhat infuscated, stigma pale 



