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Styles divergent, and placed about mid-height of the 

 opening of the pygofer ; lanceolate, acuminate, and 

 hooked {vide Plate XIV., fig. 2, and Plate XVIIL, 

 figs. 2 a and 2 b). 



The male insect, under a weak lens, has somewhat 

 the appearance of L. discolor, but its elytra are much 

 darker, and they are edged with yellowish white. The 

 vertex, also, is more prominent than in discolor. In 

 some respects, also, this insect resembles L. straminea, 

 but the pygofer and its adjuncts differ. The styles of 

 L. straminea are blunt, not lanceolate. This insect 

 may be often taken in damp meadows during June 

 and July. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Size of Macropterous male 0*09 2*50 



With expanded elytra 0-20 5'25 



Found pretty generally distributed over the central 

 parts of Europe. ' 



LiBURNiA DiSTiNCTA, Flor. Plate XIV., fig. 3. 



Delphax distincta, Flor; Fieb., G. D. t. 8, fig. 23. 

 Lihurnia distincta, Scott; Fieb., pt. iv. 11, 9; Edw. 



,, alho-carinata, Sahib. [pt. i. 69. 



,, consanguinea, Scott; Douglas. 



Brachypterous female. Vertex black, projected be- 

 yond the eyes, and strongly marked with white keels. 

 Two yellow spots occur near the pronotum. Scutellum 

 and pronotum dun-brown, with the usual keel-marks 

 paler, and carried through to the lower border. Abdo- 

 men rich brown, with five well-marked somatic rings, 

 and a deeply-cleft pygofer. Elytra about half the 

 length of the abdomen, with apices rounded, yellowish, 

 with pale, smooth, whitish nervures. A row of dark 

 spots runs down each side (Edw.). The male is smaller 

 and altogether blacker than the female. 



