486 riTLGOKiD.i:. 



into a blunt point directed ontwards and upwards ; anal tube large 

 with stout cariute. 



" Brachypterous-formed $ . — Teguiina very short, not extending 

 to the apex of the abdomen, narrow, elongate, rounded at the apex, 

 Avitli delicate nervures." {MeUchar.) 



" d $ . Length 2| to 3 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya, Colombo {fide Mclichar). 



2094. Liburnia sordescens, Motsch. (Delphax) Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc 



xxxvi (-Jj p. 109 (186."i) ; Melich. (Liburniii) Horn. Fmm. 

 Ceylon, p. 102, t. ii, f. 24, a (190'}). 



" Dirty yellowish-brown ; face elongate quadi'ate, not nar- 

 rowed between the eyes, broader than in the rest of the Ceylonese 

 species of Liburnia, yellowish-brown to piceous, with similarly 

 coloured lateral and medial cannre; eyes brown ; antennae yellow 

 to brownish-yellow ; pronotuin and mesonotum dirty yellowish- 

 brown, with similarly-coloured elongate carinae ; frequently the 

 sides of the mesonotum on the outer side of the carinae are 

 brown, the whole mesonotum is seldom piceous; tegmiua hyaline 

 clouded with yellow, with delicate yellow veins traversing them, 

 which are distinctly granulose, the apical margins and the apical 

 veins brown, on the clavus at the apex oL" the forked nervure is a 

 piceous spot ; wings hyaline with yellow veins ; abdomen black, 

 rusty-brown at apex ; legs dirty yellowish-brown, the tibia) often 

 darker. 



"J. The genital segment cyliudrical, yellowish-brown, brighter 

 on the margin above, the anal tube roundly einarginate, the angles 

 of the emargination not bent inwards ; the anal tube shows on the 

 under margin two wide spike-like appendages that are opposed one 

 to the other ; anal spike brown ; claspers pale yellow on rather 

 broad bases, they are contracted above into neck-like shapes and 

 at the apices widened into rhomboidal plates which ai'e produced 

 into two pointed teetli, the upper tooth is curved towards the 

 inner side, the lower tooth, small and obtuse, is pointed inwardly." 

 {MeUchar.) 



" c? $ . Length 3 to 3| millim." 



Hah. Ceylon: ^eY:\.Aem\ii {fide MeUchar). 



2095. Liburnia pallidula, Melich. Hon,. Faun. Ceylon, p. 103 (1903). 



"Very like the following species, L.fiavida, but can be distin- 

 guished by the vertical depressions being entirely black and the 

 frontal carinas narrowly bordered M'ith black ; the tip of the apical 

 vein of the fully-developed tegmina brownish. In the short- 

 ringed form the tegmina extend to about the middle of the 

 abdomen, and are hyaline, with bright yellow lightly-punctured 

 veins, the apical cell very short." {MeUchar.) 



" § . Length 34 millim. Those with the short tegmina 

 3 millim." 



Hab. Ceylon ; Colombo {fide MeUchar). 



