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BRITISH APHIDES. 
Winged viviparous female. 
Incites. Millimetres. 
Expanse ' 0*230 5*84. 
Size of body 0*070x0*030 1*77x0*76. 
Lengtb of antennae 0*110 2*79. 
,, cornicles 0*015 0*37. 
Wholly yellow or pale yellowish green. Eyes red. 
Antennae longer than those of the pupa. Ocelli 
red and conspicuous. Thoracic lobes very pale. 
Abdomen ovate, shining, smooth, with two rows of 
obscure dots. Cauda yellow. Cornicles long, black, 
and shining ; bases dilated. Legs yellow, with 
brownish genua and tarsi. Wings slightly fuscous, 
with pale green insertions ; cubitus and stigma green ; 
other veins are fine and black. Eostrum reaches to 
the second cox^. 
This species was plentiful on several Orchidaceae in 
the hothouses of Mr. Smee, at Carshalton, Surrey.- 
He kindly sent me specimens of these in the month of 
January, 
SiPHONOPHORA MENTHA^, BucJcton. Plate IX, figs, 1, 2. 
Apterous viviparous female. 
Inches. 
Size of body 0*080x0*040 
Length of antennge 0*100 
,, cornicles 0*025 
Millimetres. 
2*02x1*01, 
2*54. 
0*62. 
Long oval, narrow at the head, very broad at the 
middle of the abdomen. Lively green, transparent, 
and often permitting the eyes of the embryos within to 
appear as red specks. Abdomen usually exhibits deli- 
cate lines, as if they were the sutures of horny plates. 
Antennae very long, slightly olive at their tips. Frontal 
tubercles very large, and slightly gibbous. Eyes red. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen consolidated, and without 
perceptible separation. Cornicles cylindrical, greenish. 
