SALUID^. 527 



Species 8. — Salda pallipes. 



Salda pallipes, Fab. S. R. 115, 12 (1803); Fall. Hem. Suec. 73, 4 

 (1829); ZelL Ins. Lap. 267, 4 (1840); H. Sckf. 

 Wanz. vi, 43, i. 194, fig. 600 (1842) ; Sahib. Geoc. 

 Fen. 152, 4 (1848); JTo/^k. Mel. Eut. vi, 33, 238 

 (1S57) ; Fieb. Wien. Eut. Monats. iii, 237, 12 (1859) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 146, 12 (1861). 



Salda saltatoria, Guer. Ic. t. 93, fig. 2 (1829-38). 



AcANTHiA dimidiata, Curt. B. E. xii, 548, 13 (1835). 



Salda kiparia, Zeli. Ins. Lap. 267, 5 (1840); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 151, 2 

 (1848); Eolen. Mel. Ent. vi, 34, 240 (1857). 

 — littoralis, Am. et Sen. Hem. 405, 1 (1843). 



Elliptic, broad, black, clothed (except on tlie coriuiii) with fine, 

 yellow, appressed hairs. Clavus, except the apex, black. Corium 

 with sub-erect, short, black hairs ; base black, the remainder 

 (and the memlrane) didl, pale, yellowish white ; between the 

 mai'gin and the 1st nerve, 2 long black spots nearly forming a 

 streak, the 2nd spot interrupted by a white dot ; between the 

 1st and 2ud nerves a black spot with a ring of the ground colour 

 round it, followed by a large black spot ; the remainder of the 

 disk either clear, or spotted more or less, or suffused with 

 black ; onemlrane with black or brown nerves, between them 

 distinct, long blackish sjDots in a transverse row. Legs 

 yellow. 



Head. — Clyjyeus on the margin fulvous ; Face ; central lobe gene- 

 rally fulvous. Anfennce hlack, with short hairs ; 1st and 2nd joints 

 more or less fulvous at the base and apex, or the 1 st fulvous, black 

 above and beneath. E^es piceous, sometimes at the base fulvous. 

 Ocelli black. Rostnim piceous, lahrum fulvous. 



Tliorax. — 'Pronotum wide ; sides flattened, the margin rounded, 

 slightly reflexed ; posterior margin very concave across the scutellum, 

 roundly produced over the base of the elytra ; disk, the callosity 

 reaching \ the length, its central fovea deep, the side impressions 

 obsolete, the posterior furrow deep. Scutellum convex, the central 

 depression deep, sharply defined behind ; base punctured, apical i 

 crenate. Elgtra convex ; Clavus black, the apex with a large or 

 small yellow spot ; Corium dull ; base black, the colour sharply 

 defined, the remainder of the disk pale yellowish-white; anterior 



