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and without perceptible separation. Cornicles cylindrical, greenish, and 
black at the tips. Legs long, hirsute; genua, olive; tarsi, black; 
con da, green. 
Winged viviparous female .—Expanse of wings .26 inch, length of 
body 0.06 inch, of antennae .07 inch, of honey-tubes .015 inch. 
Bright green. Antennae dark olive; the two basal joints green. 
Eyes red. Thoracic lobes and scutetlum olive. Abdomen carinated, 
with four dark spots within the folds. Nectaries line and black. Legs 
green; hardly so long as those of the larva. Tarsi black. The gibbous 
character of the basal antennae joints less marked. Wings with pale 
brown cubitus and stigma. 
Some specimens show disjointed tranverse bars on the abdomen. 
(From Buckton). 
Found early in July on the garden mint ( mentha viridis) and later 
on the common broom (Sarothamnus scoparius). 
Siphonopiioea Absinthii. Linn. 
Aphis Absinthii. Walk. 
Siphonophora Absinthii. Pass. 
Length of body .08 inch, of antenme .075 inch, of honey-tubes 
.012 inch. 
Long oval, shining, dark brown, pilose, with small tubercles. Slightly 
powdered with white. Frontal tubercles small. Eyes red. Legs and 
cornicles rather short, brown. Tail rather obtuse. 
Numerous in August under the leaves of the wormwood, Artemisia 
absinthium. (From Buckton). 
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Genus. PHORODON. Pass. 
Beak moderately long, reaching the middle coxa*. Antennae hardly 
longer than the body; the first joint bluntly toothed or gibbous at the 
internal margin; fourth and fifth joints nearly equal; third joint 
longest; the inner margins of the tubercles developed into a blunt 
tooth. Honey-tubes long, cylindrical and sometimes slightly clavate. 
Tail short. Legs short, or of but moderate length. 
The chief characteristics are the toothed tubercle and the gibbous 
antennal joint. The genus is closely allied to Siphonophora. on one 
side and Aphis (restricted) on the other; and has no substantial char¬ 
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