LiBtJENIA CAfNODES. 41 



Marshes in Abbey Wood ; and at Brundall, Norfolk. 

 June. 



Size, 2-75 to 3-00 millimetres, O-llxO-15 inch. 



LiBURNiA VENOSA, Germ. Plate XII., fig. 14. 



Delphax venosa, Germ. 



,, rhijpara, Flor. 



,, nitidula, Kirschb. 

 Liburnia venosa, Scott ; Fieb., C. E. pt. iv. 35 ; Edw. 

 pt. i. 83. 



,, curtula, Sahib. 



Brachelytrous form : — Small ; brown or black. 

 Vertex square. Eyes black. Head with two dark lines 

 united behind the eyes. Pronotum obscure brown, with 

 pale keels. Scutellum rather longer than the pronotum. 

 Elytra nearly equal to the length of the abdomen, 

 oval, with coarse brown veins. Abdomen obscure 

 brown, with a yellow pygofer and two black anal plates. 

 Legs and antennae yellowish ; tibise large and furnished 

 with two spines on the outer edges, and armed with the 

 usual laminas. 



I have not met with the Macropterous form ; but 

 Mr. Edwards describes it as having " dirty whitish 

 hyaline and wrinkled elytra, nearly twice the length of 

 the abdomen." 



Found on the roots of coarse grasses and rushes. 

 The female is larger than the male. 



Size, 2*00 milhmetres, or 0*08 inch. 



Liburnia capnodes, Scott. Plate XIII., figs. 1 to 6. 



Lihurnia capnodes, Scott; Fieb., C. E. pt. iv. 41; 

 Edw. pt. i. 73. 



Macropterous female. Vertex rounded in front, 

 yellow, with two or more brownish dots. Pronotum 

 with three pale keels, and scutellum dirty yellow, with 



