SALDA, 343 
with the nervures fuscous or blackish; the antennz black, with the basal joint to near the tip, and a 
broad ring on the apical joint, favous or testaceous, the second joint (as in the type) sometimes obscure 
testaceous ; the venter varying in colour from almost entirely black to flavous with a large black patch 
on each side of the sixth segment at the base ; the pleura with one or two flavous spots near each of the 
coxal cavities ; the rostrum and legs flavo-testaceous, the tarsi and the apices of the tibie: annulated with 
fuscous. Head, pronotum, and scutellum very finely rugulose ; ocelli narrowly separated ; antenne long 
and slender, finely pubescent, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length, 4 slightly shorter than 3; pronotum 
greatly narrowed in front, the sides rapidly and obliquely converging from the base forwards and very 
narrowly explanate, the anterior lobe occupying almost the entire width, transversely depressed in the 
middle in front, and separated from the posterior lobe by a very deep transverse groove. Membrane 
nearly as long as the comparatively short corium, with four long areole. Legs finely pubescent, the tibie 
with short, fine, scattered sete. 
Length 24-3, breadth 13 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuatEMaLA, San Geronimo (Champion); Panama, David and Caldera in Chiriqui 
(Champion).—BraziL, Rio Janeiro ! ?. 
Stal’s type of S. ventralis, now before me, is in a mutilated condition, and without 
an apical joint to the antenne. ‘The five specimens examined from Central America, 
from which the above description is taken, agree very well with it, except that they 
have the yellow marks more extended on the corium. ‘There is no trace of maculation 
on the membrane, the nervures being simply darker. Stal! describes the insect as 
glabrous, but this is a mistake. 
10. Salda abdominalis, n. sp. (Tab. XX. fig. 10.) 
Ovate, opaque, the upper surface clothed with a very short, fine, decumbent golden pubescence; black, the 
head in front, two spots between the eyes, the pronotal margins, excepting at the base and apex, the costal 
area of the corium to about the middle and a patch at its apex, each partly or entirely enclosing a spot 
of the ground-colour, a minute spot at the inner apical angle of the corium and another on its disc, and a 
faint streak at the base of the clavus and a spot at its apex, flavous or whitish; the membrane pale, with 
the nervures and some faint spots fuscous; the antenne fuscous, with the basal joint testaceous; the 
venter flavous, with a large black patch on each side of the sixth segment at the base; the rostrum, coxe, 
and legs flavo-testaceous, the tibice and tarsi annulated with fuscous; the pleura with one or two flavous 
spots near each of the coxal cavities. Head, pronotum, and scutellum distinctly rugulose ; ocelli narrowly 
separated; antenne finely pubescent, slender, moderately long, joints 2-4 subequal in length ; pronotum 
moderately narrowed in front, the sides obliquely converging forwards and narrowly but conspicuously 
explanate, the anterior lobe transversely depressed in the middle in front and separated from the posterior 
lobe by a deep transverse groove. Membrane much shorter than the corium, with four long areole. 
Legs finely pubescent, the tibize with fine scattered seta. 
Length 3-34, breadth 13-13 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Joaquin and San Gerénimo in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Six specimens. Very like S. ventralis, but with the pronotum less narrowed in front 
and its margins a little more expanded, the apical joint of the antennz not annulate, 
the elytra somewhat differently marked. 
