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XLII. Notes relative to the First Appearance of the Aphis 

 Lanigera,* or the Apple-Tree Insect, in this Country. By 

 the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C.B. 

 P.R.S.tyc. 



Read April 4, 1815. 



Nov. 4, 1790. Dr. La yard informed me, that he had been 

 told of a new insect, infesting the Apple trees, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kennington ; that it first made its appearance 

 in the year 1788, and was supposed to have been brought 

 over with French Apples, of which a large number had been 

 imported in 1787. 



5. I received a bough of an Apple tree from the Doctor, 

 who procured it from Mr. Michel son of Kennington ; the 

 wood of it was covered, especially on the under side, with 

 mealy insects, which appeared to be Aphides. 



6. Mr. Lee and Mr. Dickson called in Soho Square; 

 both had seen the insect in question, and agreed that they 

 had not before met with one of that nature, that attacked 

 Apple trees. Mr. Lee thought it the same species as he had 

 seen on the Ash frequently, and Mr. Dickson that of the 

 Weymouth Pine. 



Mr. Lee had them abundantly in his nursery at Ham- 

 mersmith, and was much alarmed for the mischief they 



* Aphis Lanigera of Haiismann, described by him in lUigeis Magazine, 

 vol. i. part 2. page 440. This species may be readily distinguished from the Aphis 

 Pyri Mali of Fabricius (with which, by its habitat, it might be confounded) by 

 the absence of the horns on the under part of the abdomen, which are noticed 

 in the character of that species by Fabricius. 



