SALDID^. 521 



beyond the middle a broad, pieeous blotch followed by a large, oval, 

 ochreous spot ; apex pieeous : in the $ ochreous, with a brown mar- 

 ginal spot beyond the middle, or witii a central, diagonally trans- 

 verse, brownish band, more or less defined, ending in a darker blotch 

 on the margin, sometimes forming 3 angulated spots ; Membrane 

 dull ochreous, in the (5" sufiused with brown ; nerves brown. Sternum 

 black, the margin of the pro- and mesosteruura, and the apex of the 

 coxa?, pale ochreous. Legs ; thighs with fine hair, pale ochreous, the 

 inner and posterior sides with a strong pieeous line ; tibics in the ^ 

 yellow-brown, in the ? ochreous, with distant, strong, black hairs, 

 base and apex in both sexes usually pieeous ; tarsi ochreous, hairy 

 beneath, and with longer black hairs at the junction of the joints ; 

 1st joint, and apex of the 3rd, pieeous. 



Abdomen black ; beneath, in the $ , the apex ochreous. 



Length, ? , li ; (^,2 lines. 



Common at Lymington Salterns, Hants, in May ; Deal, August. 

 " Isthmus of Portland" {Dale and Curtis). 



Species 4. — Salda orthochila. 



Salda OKTHOCniLA, Fieb. Wieu. Ent. Monats. iii, 234, 6 (1S59); Europ 

 Hem. 145, 5 (1861). 



— LiTOKALis, Fab. S. R. 115, 13 (1803) nou Lin.; Burnt. Hamlb. ii, 



216, 3 (1835). 



— LUTEiPEs, Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 717, 6 (1860) non H. Schf. 

 LvGiEUs SALTATORius, Pc/nz, F. G. 92, 13, 71011 Lin. 



Ovate, black, slightly shining, clothed vnth fine, short, yellowish 

 hairs. Elytra dull, the hairs clearer yellow ; clavus with one 

 posterior large yellow spot ; corium with 3 rows of 3 or 4 

 large, long, irregular spots between the nerves, and a posterior 

 marginal spot, yellow. 



Head. — The hairs very close and appressed ; Clypeus and lobes of 

 the Face brownish-yellow or yellow. Antenna- black, with fine, 

 longish, projecting hairs ; 1st joint brownish-yellow above. JEyes 

 pieeous, with light-brown curved lines. Ocelli yellow. Rostrum 

 black, the last joint pieeous ; labrum yellowish in the middle. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short-trapeziform, narrow in front, sides 

 almost straight, the margins slightly reflexed ; anterior angles 



