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Insect Pests. 



becoming pale yellowish-green. At each moult the insect fixes itself 

 firmly to the underside of the leaf by its claws and proboscis. Unlike 

 the nymphs of Tiiiihlocijhu, they are very active and run rapidly, but 

 do not jump like the adults. 



The adult G. cividuJn is green, with pale marks. 

 ('. fliiri'>ircii>i is more of a yellowish-green. 



The distribution of C. fldvexi-ens in Britain is given by Edwards 

 as Norwich and Cotswold districts; Dulilin (Carpenter); Ha.stings 

 (Butler) ; Glanvilles Wootton (Dale). <.)ne could add some hundreds 



of localities. .Suffice to 

 say that it has occurred 

 in such numbers as to 

 cause damage in several 

 localities in Kent, Sussex, 

 Herefordsl lire, AVorcester- 

 shiie and Huntingdon- 

 shire. 



The allied species is 

 also recorded from the 

 Norwich and Cotswold dis- 

 tricts ; i'ithichry (Nor- 

 man); Ardara (Johnson); 

 Ireland ( Haliday ) ; Glan- 

 villes Wootton (Dale) ; 

 Hurst Green, Hastings, 

 Ewhurst and (.'hingford 

 (Butler). Specimens have 

 liecn received in all cases 

 from the same localities 

 as jhi-ccsccns. 

 They are lioth probably found throughout the whole couutrv. 



FIG. 3Ci3.— I.E.tF IIorrEl! 



X.VTL'K.VL KXEMIKS. 



Quite a number of ChJoritrr and Tiii,hloc,ih,r are found to be 

 attacked l>y parasites. 



Saunders (14) records a Strepsipteron, Elrnrhus tnuiinmii^ (of 

 Ivirby) as a parasite of the allied Lihunti,,, and ligures this parasitic 

 coleopteron emerging from the host. 



The two most important natural enemies of the Ti/iMiri/lm/rr 

 are the Proctotrupids, of the genus A/,Jic/o/,i,s, and Bipunculid larvc 

 Q.mte a, number of the ('/>/„ri/,r and T;//,h/on,h„ examined from all 



