- SIPHONOPHOEA CHELIDONII, 
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and black at the tips. Legs longj hirsute ; genua olive ; 
tarsi black. Cauda green. 
Winged viviparous female » 
Inches. Millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0*260 6*60. 
Size of body 0*060x0025 1*62x0*62. 
Length of antennae 0*070 1*77 
„ cornicles 0*015 0*38 
Bright green. Antennse dark olive ; the two basal 
joints green. Byes red. Thoracic lobes and scutellum 
olive. Abdomen carinatedj with four dark spots within 
the folds. JSTectaries fine and black. Legs green ; hardly 
so long as those of the larva. Tarsi black. The gib- 
bous character of the basal antennse joints less marked. 
Wings with pale brown cubitus and stigma. 
Some specimens show disjointed transverse bars on 
the abdomen. 
Bound rather numerously early in July at Haslemere 
on the garden mint Mentha viridis^ and afterwards on 
the common broom, Sarothamnus scoparius. 
Passerini says that Aphis capsellce of Kalt. feeds on 
Mentha sylvestris. The description of J, capsellce does 
not, however, agree with the Aphis above noticed, but 
the Aphis menthce of Walker possibly might prove to 
be the same insect. 
SiPHONOPHOEA OHELiDONii, Kalt. Plate IX, figs. 3, 4. 
Aphis chelidonii, Kalt. 
Siphonophora chelidonii^ Koch. 
Apterous viviparous female. 
Inches. 
Size of body 0*100x0*045 
Length of antennae 0*070 
,, cornicles 0*025 
Millimetres. 
2-54X1-13. 
1-77 
0-62. 
Long oval, dull yellow or leek green, somewhat 
