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following species described by Dr. Melicbar, :is they doubtless 

 represent more than one genus. 8ta], who first founded Libuniia 

 (su2ira), gave divisional characters which were obviously truly 

 generic. Fieber foinided a number of genera which have been 

 incontinently sank by most other writers, and probably on insuffi- 

 cient study, for they are all minute insects, and their proper 

 discrimination awaits a patient and capable monographer iu the 

 possession of ample material. 



2086. Liburnia fumipennis, Mdic/i. Ham. Faun. Ccylvn, p. 97 

 (1908). 



" Vertex twice as long as breadth between the eyes, beyond the 

 eyes yellow with an anterior narrow triangular white mark, 

 lateral depressions anteriorly black ; face narrow, elongate, a little 

 narrower between the eyes than at base, black, with slender white 

 carinse, the medial carination black, genoe and clypeus black with 

 white carina?, eyps brown ; antenna? stretching beyond the eyes, 

 the basal joint cylindrical, white, second joint yellowish-white ; 

 pronotum about as long as vertex, yellowish-white with two small 

 brownish indentations between the carinas ; tegulse yellowish- 

 white ; mesonotum reddish-yellow in $ , black in S , its posterior 

 margin and apex yellowish ; tegmina hyaline, piceous to black, 

 the apical margins brighter, veins brown, finely granulose, marginal 

 vein to clavus white with the apex black ; wings fuliginous, veins 

 brown ; abdomen piceous to black, extreme segmental margins 

 narrowly and brightly paler ; legs pale yellow, posterior tibice with 

 two spines, the apices of which are brown." (MeJicJiar.) 



" Length, c? 5 , 3 to 3^ millim.'' 



Hab. Ceylon ; Henaratgoda, Peradeniya (Jide Melkhar). 



2087. Liburnia venosa, Mohch. (Delpliax) Bull. Soc. Nat Mosc. xxxvi 

 (3) p. 109 (1803) ; Mclich. (Liburnia) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 96 (1903). 



" Body short, compi'essed, ferruginous ; vertex of head as long as 

 broad, slightly narrowed between the eyes, ferruginoixs to piceous 

 with white ridges, the central and lateral carinations equally 

 stout, the first forming at the junction of face and vertex an 

 -elongate narrow triangle connected with the vertical white lateral 

 carina? by a transverse white ridge, and also furnished with a 

 stout medial ridge towards the neck ; clypeus coucolorous with 

 face and with a white ridge ; eyes brown ; antennae piceous ; 

 prouotuin and mesonotum ferruginous, with yellowish-white carina- 

 tions, the medial one stout and white ; tegmina hyaline clouded 

 with pale brownish, the veins yellow, the terminal vein brown, as 

 are also the transverse veins on the inner half of the corium, thus 

 forming a thickened transverse fascia, while the outermost vein is 



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