Corixide. aay 
anterior tibise much swollen, pale narrow at the base, 
their greatest width about a third from the apex, inter- 
mediate claws longer than the tarsi. 
L. 6 mm. 
Reigate ; Lee, Douglas and Scott ; Lymington, Barmouth, 
Blatch ; Norfolk, Edwards ; Parkhurst Forest, Power ; Taff’s 
Well, 8. Wales, Billups ; Tilgate, Champion. 
C. semistriata, Mieh.—Darker and rather shorter than 
limitata, very rastrate; pronotum with 7-8 pale lines; 
markings of the corium divided into four series by three 
longitudinal dark lines; facial irapression of the male 
deeply excavated and extended high up between the eyes, 
not deeply arched above, but terminating in a subtruncato 
curve ; front tibiae swollen ; pal short, their greatest width 
near the base. 
L. 6 mm. 
Lee, Cambridge Fens, Douglas and Scott; Norfolk, 
Edwards ; Isle of Man, Blatch ; Devon, Purfitt ; Forres, 
Norman; Perth, Reuter ; Moreton, Cheshire Coast, Hillis ; 
Armagh, Johnson. 
C. venusta, D. § S.—Fxceedingly like semistriata, 
but rather shorter and wider, the anterior tibiaw of the ¢ 
not swollen, and the facial impression less deep, and more 
parallel-sided; in the female the pale are longer and 
narrower, twice, or more than twice as long as wide; the 
entire surface is very rastrate, and the pronotum is slightly 
shorter than in semistriata and has seven pale lines, 
L. 54-6 mm. 
Chobham ; Carlisle, Hunter ; Forres, Norman ; Rothesay, 
Douglas ; Orkneys, Reuter ; Newcastle, Ireland, Champion. 
C. Fabricii, Lich. (nigrolineata, Fieb. ; nicans, D. § 8. ; 
dubia, D. & 8.; borealis, D. § 8.3; perplexa, D. & S.; 
Whitei, D. § S.; decora, D. & S.).—This species, which is 
very variable in colour and markings, may be known from 
the three preceding by the markings of the corium not being 
divided into series by longitudinal lines, by the more strongly 
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