250 flemiptera-Hetcroptera. 
slightly curved, membrane with a longitudinal cloud below 
the apex of the cells; femora elongate, tibia with very 
fine, scarcely noticeable bristles. 
L. 6 mm. 
Common and generally distributed on nettles and other 
plants; generally fades to yellowish brown after death. 
L. contaminatus, Mall. (sulcifrons, D. 5 S.).—Green, 
clothed with pale hairs, eyes very prominent, vertex between 
the eyes in the ¢ much narrower than each eye, in the 
? about as wide as the eye; antennee with the apex of 
the second joint and the third and fourth brown, third and 
fourth together subequal to the second ; pronotum very 
convex and much raised posteriorly, punctured, transversely 
wrinkled, sides and base rounded ; scutellum transversely 
wrinkled; elytra finely and closely punctured; corium 
with a more or less extensive dark transverse spot above 
the inner angle of the cuneus, membrane dusky, with a 
darker spot near the apex of each cell, another near the 
apex of the cuneus, and sometimes one on the apical 
margin ; tibia with short brown spines rising from black 
spots. 
L. 63-7 mm. 
On birch-trees, Woking, Reigate; Barnet, Sevenoaks, 
Ewhurst, Butler; Weybridge, Phillips; Darenth, Dart- 
ford, Shirley, Mickleham, Douglas and Scott; Norfolk, 
Edwards ; Knowle, Bewdley, Blatch ; St. Ives, Cornwall, 
Mason; Forres, Norman; Armagh, Johnson. 
L. viridis, Fall. (contaminatus, D. 5 S.).—Extremely 
like the preceding, but distinguishable at once by its smaller 
eyes and wider vertex ; in the ¢ the vertex between the 
eyes is about as wide as each eye, in the ? much wider ; 
the clavus also is brown, or partly brown, instead of wholly 
green as in contaminatus, and the spot at the apex of the 
corium is generally larger. 
L. 63-7 mm. 
Hastings ; Croydon, Shirley, Darenth, Mickleham, Esher, 
