[304] Browne's Civil and Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, 430.
[305] Essai sur la Géographie des Plantes, 136.
[306] M'Kinnen, 171. Browne ubi supr. Merian, Ins. Sur. 10.
[307] Smith's Abbott's Insects of Georgia, 199.
[308] Illiger, Mag. i. 256.
[309] The farmers would do well to change the name of this insect from turnip-fly to turnip-flea, since from its diminutive size and activity in leaping the latter name is much the most proper. The term, the fly, might with propriety be restricted to the Hop-aphis.
[310] Young's Annals of Agriculture, vii. 102.
[311] Marshall in Philos. Trans. lxxiii. 1783.
[312] See above, p. [167]-[168].
[313] Swamm. ii. 81. col. b.—Gyllenhal in describing the last-named species, so common on the flowers of siliquose plants (Insecta Suecica, iii. 142.), asks if his R. sulcicollis (C. Pleurostigma, E. B.), which agrees with it in most respects, except in having toothed thighs, be not the other sex? This query I can solve in the negative, having taken the sexes of R. assimilis in coitu, which do not differ, save that the male has a somewhat shorter rostrum.