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BRITISH APHIDES. 
he states the German specimens to be. Though his 
figure also is unlikej I do not doubt the identity of the I 
species. ; 
It is remarkable how free certain plants are from ■ 
Aphides during certain years. I never before the year j 
1876 saw the garden strawberry attacked, but in June j 
of that year the stalks of tbe unripe fruit were much 
infested. Mr. Smee, however, remembers other i 
seasons in which an Aphis was common on the straw- 
berry plant, Fragaria vesca. | 
SiPHONOPHOEA HIEEACII, Halt. Plate XI. j 
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Ajphis Meracii, Kalt. || 
Apterous viviparous fern, ale. 
Indies. 
Size of body 0“110x 0*060 
Length of antennse 0*100 
,, cornicles 0*020 
Millimetres. 
2*79x1*52. 
2‘54 
0*50 
Crowds the flowers and flower-stalks of Hieracium 
sylvestre and H. mitrorum. When taken by me on 
July 3rd the larvse had all passed through their 
preliminary moults, and all the specimens developed 
shortly into pupse. 
The Pupa. 
Very shining, particularly so about the thorax and 
the wing-cases. Head and abdomen shining dun 
brown. Thorax dirty green. Upper part of the femora 
dirty green or yellowish. Antennso and tibiao black. 
The whole insect is covered with small black tuber- 
cles, tufted with fine hair. 
Winged viviparous female. 
Inches. Millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0*290 7*35. 
Size of body 0*090x0*030 2*27x0*76. 
Length of antennao 0*105 2*66 
,, cornicles 0*027 0*52 
