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vegetation may be on which they occur to our notice. Mr. Francis 
Walker, who has investigated this family of insects so thoroughly, in 
his several notices of the present species (Annals of Natural History, 
2d series, vol. 5, pp. 17, 73; Zoologist, vol. 6, p. 2247, and Appen¬ 
dix of vol. 7; and List of Ilomopterous Insects in the British 
Museum, p. 981), has shown what a number of names have been given 
it by different authors. And I make one addition to the list which 
he has given. 
It was first named Aphis Rumicis or the dock plant-louse, by 
Linnaeus, in his I auna ol Sweden, published in 1746. lie merely 
states in connection with this name that it is the aphis of the Rumex 
Lapathum. 
Aphis Craccce, the next name it received, was first given by Lin¬ 
naeus in the tenth edition of his System of Nature, vol. 1, p. 452, pub¬ 
lished in 1758, as being the aphis of the tufted vetch, Vida Cracca. 
Aphis Atriplids, the aphis of the garden orache, Atriplex horten- 
sis, was the third name given by Linnaeus, in 1761, in the second 
edition of his Fauna of Sweden. 
Aphis Fabcs, the aphis of the bean, Faba vulgaris , appeared ia 
1763, in Scopoli’s Entomology of Carniola, p. 139. 
Aphis Genistas , the aphis of the dyer’s broom, Genista tinctoria,, 
appeared in the same work with the preceding. 
Aphis Acetosce, the aphis of the field sorrel, Rumex Acetosa , was _ 
a fourth name given to this insect by Linnaeus, in the twelfth edition 
of his System of Nature, vol. 2, p. 734, published in 1765. 
Aphis Aparines , the aphis of the bedstraw, Galium Aparine, was 
the next name given, by Fabricius, in his Systema Entomologia, p. 
735, which appeared in 1775. 
Aphis Euonymi, the aphis of the spindle tree or burning bush, 
Euonymus Europteus , appeared also in the same work, p. 736. 
Aphis Rapaveris , the aphis of the poppy, Papaver somniferum , 
appeared in Fabricius’s Genera of Insects, p. 303, published in 1777. 
Aphis hortensis , on the tops of the garden orache, was published 
by Fabricius in his Species of Insects, vol. 2, p. 387, which appeared 
in 1781. He subsequently abandoned this name, becoming assured 
it was the same insect with A. Atriplids. 
Aphis Vidas was proposed in the same work, p. 390, as a substi¬ 
tute for the Lin mean name A phis Craccce. 
Aphis Chenopodii, the aphis of the pigweed, Chenopodium album, 
was published in 1800 by Schrank, in his Fauna Boica, vol. 2, p 
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