SALDID^. 525 



Elytra ; Olnons and Corium velvety black ; anterior margin of the 

 latter (except the base and a more or less broad interruption beyond 

 the middle) yellow, the colour at first broad, vpidened on its inner 

 side along the 1st nerve, into a dentate mark, then gradually nar- 

 rower and wholly or partially interrupted beyond the middle, reap- 

 pearing as a large triangle within the apex, or only on the margin 

 and as an oval spot above the apex ; the apex itself black ; Mem- 

 brane dull, dark yellowish, with a darker transverse band beyond the 

 middle ; sometimes in the 3rd cell, near the base, a brown spot ; 

 anterior margin, as far as the 1st nerve, more or less black ; nerves 

 brown. Sometimes, according to Flor, the entire membrane is uni- 

 colorous gray-brown. Legs finely haired, brownish-yellow ; thighs 

 piceous in the middle ; t'lbice narrowly brown at the apex ; tarsi ; on 

 the hinder legs more or less piceous. 



Length, 1^ line. The smallest species. 



Scarce. Taken by Mr. Dale, in wet places on the heath by 

 Lewell plantation, near Dorchester, from July to October. 



Species 7. — Salda s tell at a. 



ACANTHIA STELLATA, Curt. B. E. 12, 548, 14 (1S35). 

 Salda C. album, Fietj. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 23G, 10 (1859) ; Europ. 

 Hem. 146, 10 (1861). 

 — ARENICOLA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 718, 7 (1S60) 



Short, broad-ovate, black, clothed with short yellow hairs. Clavus 

 with a narrow pointed spot towards the apex ; corium with 

 several small yellow spots in rows, and 2 large and long on the 

 anterior margin, of which latter the 1st is the largest, [-formed, 

 with a large black spot on its inner side, and joined to the 1st 

 nerve ; memhra^ie yellow ; nerves broadly black ; in each cell 

 an oval black spot; margin at first yellow, with a large sub- 

 quadrate black spot, then fuscous. Legs yellow ; tihice black 

 at the base and end ; the 1st and 2nd pairs black or brown in 

 the middle, on the 2nd pair forming a ring. 



Head. — Clypeus with the margin yellow-brown, not prominent ; 

 Face and lahrmn dusky yellow-brown. Antenna'; 1st joint and end 

 of the 2nd yellow-brown, the 1st black beneath ; 3rd and 4th black. 



