252 Tlemtptera-HHeteroptera. 
larger and paler in colour and with the extreme apex of 
the central lobe of the face and of the cuneus black, mem- 
brane paler; posterior femora with two narrow brown 
rings at the apex, tibia with black spines not rising from 
black spots. 
On Spirea, etc., Woking, Bromley, Reigate, Chobham ; 
Headley Lane, Billups ; Hastings, Lewes, Sevenoaks, Bar- 
net, Wymondley, Shalford, Fritton and Corton, Suffolk, 
Butler ; Norfolk, Edwards; on Myrica, Strathglass, F. B. 
White; Tilgate, Caterham, Hsher, Champion. 
L. pratensis, ub. (var. campestris, Fab.)—A most 
variable species, usually testaceous, more or less marked 
with darker colour; some specimens, however, are black, 
others almost entirely pale green, others again reddish 
brown, witb darker markings. It varies also much in 
puncturation and brilliancy of surface. The characters by 
which it may be known from its congeners are, the com- 
paratively short antenne compared with any of the pre- 
ceding species, which do not reach beyond the apex of the 
clavus ; its much larger size compared with any of the 
species of the Orthops group ; the very fine short spines 
of the tibie, and the two dark rings at the apex of the 
posterior femora. 
L. 5-63} mm. 
The race or variety pratensis has the elytra much more 
sparsely punctured and the punctures larger, and is gene- 
rally a more convex and more brightly coloured insect ; 
campestris has the elytra very closely punctured, and is 
generally dull brown or greenish. Both forms are common 
and generally distributed. 
L. viscicola, Put.—Short oval, greenish yellow, gener- 
ally the base of the pronotum, the scutellum chiefly, the base 
of the elytra and a broad semicircular band at the apex 
often uniting with it at the sides, red-brown, thus leaving 
a small discal patch or band, common to both elytra, in the 
middle; cuneus pale, its inner margin and apex blood- 
red; femora red, with two darker apical rings. Antenna 
