SALDID.E. 519 



Length, 2 — 2| lines. 



liare. New Passage, Bristol {Reed) ; old specimeus from the 

 collection of "W. Backhouse, Esq., Darlington. " June 30 ; running 

 on the muddy shores at Broughton, Lancashire ; Burnham, Norfolk, 

 and Sandwich, Kent" {Curtis, B. E. p. 5iS). 



Species 2. — Salda lateralis. 



Salda lateralis, Fall. j\[on. Cim. 30, 4 (1S07); Hem. Suec. 74, 6 

 (1S29) ; Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 233, 2 (1859) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 144, 2 (1S61). 



Short broad oval, black, shining, with very short, close hairs ; the 

 Face, 1st and 2nd joints of the antennae, sides oi t\\e pi'onotum, 

 basal 4 of the outer side of the corium, sternum, and lerfs, 



yellow. 



Head. — Crown black, the hairs yellow; Face pale yellow. An- 

 tennoe ; 1st and 2nd joints browu-yell'^w, the 1st with a brown streak 

 beneath ; 3rd and 4th brown or piceous. Eyes piceous. Ocelli red. 

 Sostrum piceous ; 1st joint, base of the 2nd, and the labriim, pale 

 yellow. 



Thorax. — Pronotum very short tra])ezoidal ; anterior margin thick, 

 prominent ; hinder angles rounded ; posterior margin veiy concave ; 

 disk ; the smooth transverse callosity occupies the 1st f rds of the 

 length, in its middle a large depression, and a small one on each 

 side of it, behind the callosity finely punctured ; sides deflected, 

 finely crenate, yellow, the colour narrow in front gradually widens 

 to the posterior margin, and is dentate on its inner side. Scutellum 

 slightly convex, finely crenate ; on the basal ^ a large subquadrate 

 depression. Elytra ; Clavus pitchy black, the base and a long spot 

 at the apex yellow; Corium black, the basal -i outwardly, broadly 

 yellow ; apex with a large, yellow, oval spot ; Memhrane piceous- 

 yellow, suff"used with piceous at the base; nerves piceovis. Sternum 

 pale yellow, the middle black. Leys yellow, with fine short hairs ; 

 thighs with a brown line on the inner and under sides, less per- 

 ceptible on the 1st pair ; tihice ; at the base and apex a brown spot ; 

 2ud and 3rd pairs with distant, black, projecting hairs ; tarsi ; base 

 of the 1st and the apex of the 3rd joint narrowly brown. 



Length, 1} Hue, 



Kare. A single speciaien taken casually ; locality unknown. 



