LIBUUNIA, 



483 



only covering the basal area of the abdomen, rounded apieallj, 



shining black, with distinct an- 

 teriorly directed veins, a large 

 white apical marginal spot, a smaller 

 white marking on the apical margin, 

 and a discal wliite spot divided by 

 the tegminal suture, a small white 

 elongate spot on the lower half of 

 the terminal margin of the teguloe ; 

 sternum pale yellow ; abdomen pi- 

 ceous above, the apex (genital seg- 

 ment) whitish, beneath ferruginous; 

 legs pale yellow, apices of the spines 

 to posterior tibiae and the tarsal 

 claws brown, the posterior legs are 



frequently light brownish." {Melicliar.) 

 "Length, 6 , l\ millim." 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Heuaratgoda, Peradeniya {fide Melicliar). 



Fig. 266. — Libtirnia alhociuitato . 



2090. Liburnia albicollis, MoUch. (Delphax) Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 XXX vi (3) p. 110 (1863) ; Melich. (Liburnia) Horn. Faun. Ceijlon, 

 p. 99, t. ii, f. 23, a, b (190:3). 



Vertex short, extending but little beyond the eyes, yellow-brown 

 with elongate white carinse ; face elongate, narrow, constricted 

 between the eyes, with lateral and medial white eariufe ; at the 

 passing of the vertex into the face the median carina forms a 

 small triangle the sides of which are connected with one another 

 by a transverse ridge which is posteriorly angularly broken, and 

 from the apex of which a short median carina runs to the neck ; 

 clypeus triangular, brown, medially and laterally cai'inate ; eyes 

 brown ; antennae yellowish ; pronotum with three white carinse 

 on the anterior margin frequently marked with two piceous spots ; 

 mesonotiun piceous-brown to pitch-black (in $ frequently ferru- 

 ginous), the margin often reddish-brown narrowly rounded, apex 

 white, and with thi-ee parallel elongate carinae which are coloured 

 black inclining to ferruginous (in $ ) : tegmina hyaline slightly 

 clouded with yellow, covering the abdomen, threaded by yellowish 

 slightly brown granulate nervures, the curved vein of the apical 

 margin brown, a piceous-brown spot on the marginal suture 

 at the base of the forked vein, which frequently, especially in 

 the brigliter-coloured $ , is indistinct or even absent ; wings 

 hyaline with brown veins ; abdomen piceous, ferruginous at 

 base ; legs yellowish, the apices of the spines and the tarsal claws 

 brown. 



S 2 . Length 2i millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Heuaratgoda {fide Melicliar). 



