520 OCULATINA. 



Species 3. — Salda pulchella. 



AcANTHiA PULCHELLA. Curt. B. E. xii, p. and pi. 548 (1835). 



— BICOLOR, Curt. B. E. xii, p. 548 (1835). 

 Salda pulchella, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 131, t. 308, fi^. 947 (1850) ; Fieb. 



Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 234,4 (1859); Europ.Hem. 



144, 4 (1861). 



Ovate, black, slightly shining. Antennce ; 1st and 2nd joints (and 

 sometimes the 3rd) brownish-yellow ; proiiotum ; sides broadly 

 pale ochreous. Elytra variable in colour ; in the $ usually 

 black ; anterior margin of the corium broadly pale ochreous, 

 interrupted before the apex by a large piceous blotch ; mem- 

 Irane ochreous, suffused wdth fuscous : in the $ the corium 

 usually dull ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous, with 

 a posterior black, marginal spot ; membrane dull ochreous ; 

 tJi/f/Jis pale ochreous, with 2 long, brown streaks ; ^i5/(^ ochreous, 

 in the (^ yellow- brown. 



Head. — Crown black, in front with fine yellow hairs; Face pale 

 ochreous. Antennce with fine, short, black hairs ; 1st joint yellow, 

 brown beneath ; 2ud yellow, brownish, or brown (usually palest in 

 the $ ) ; 3rd and 4th piceous, the 3rd rarely brown. Fyes piceous. 

 Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous, 1st joint, base of 2nd, and the 

 lahrum, yellow. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum short trapeziform, the callosity with a large 

 depression in the centre and a small one on each side of it, before 

 and behind it a row of very fine punctures ; sides pale ochreous, in 

 the (J in an almost parallel stripe, somewhat narrower at the pos- 

 terior margin ; in the $ , the ochreous colour widened posteriorly 

 and going round the posterior angle of the callosity ; sides and pos- 

 terior portion finely punctate-crenate. Scutellum finely crenate, the 

 basal -1 wath a large, subtrapezoidal depression, of which the posterior 

 margin is rather sharply defined ; the apical ^, at times, with 2 large 

 brown-yellow spots. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium with rather large 

 punctures and very short hairs ; Clavus in the ^ black, in the ? 

 ochreous or clouded with brown ; Corium in the ($ black, the out- 

 side on the basal ^ broadly ochreous, the colour inwardly dentate ; 



