LIST OF UOilOPIEllOUS INSECTS. 



Ptuiiifex, Amyot, Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 2me Sirie, v. 476, 322. 

 Calaniaphis, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sine, v. 477. 



Distance between tlie first and second veins at the tips much 

 more than twice that between ihem al tlie base ; third much far- 

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

 the second at the base than the second is from the first ; first 

 fork much nearer to the second fork tlian to the third vein, as 

 near to the third vein as the third is to the second ; second fork 

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

 vein slightly curved, much nearer to the second fork than to the 

 tip of the rib-vein. 



Var. ? The viviparotis wingless female. Pale or dark green, el- 

 liptical, rather lonpf and narrow: feelers a little more than half the 

 length of the body : moulh pale green or pale yellow : necta- 

 ries black : legs pale green or pale yellow, moderately long ; knees, 

 feet, and tips of shanks darker. 



T/te viviparous, winged female. Pale green while a pupa : 

 head, disk ol chest and that of breast dark gray, when the wings 

 are unfolded : feelers black, nearly as long as the body: nectaries 

 hardly projecting above the surface of the abdomen: wing-ribs 

 yellow ; brand and veins brown. From Arundo Phragmitis al the 

 end of September, near Newcastle. 



Var. ? The oviparous wingless female. Narrow, rather flat, 

 slightly increasing in breadth from the head till near the tip of 

 the abdomen, pale yellowish green, velvet-like; a vivid bluish- 

 green stripe down the back and a more indistinct stripe on each 

 side : feelers black, pale yellow towards the base, less than half the 

 length of the body : mouth pale yellow with a black tip : necta- 

 ries pale yellow with black tips, about one-eighth of the length of 

 the body : legs pale yellow, rather short ; knees, feet, and tips 

 of shanks black. Eggs green, spindle-shaped, very large. 



The wingless nmle. Linear, narrower than the female : feelers 

 nearly as long as the body : head sometimes buff, and chest some- 

 times yellow. From Arundo arenaria in the beginning of Octo- 

 ber, near Fleetwood. 



a. Scotland. Presented by E. Doublcday, Esq. 

 b—z. England. (In Canada Balsam). From Mr. Walker's collec- 

 tion. 



