530 OCULATINA. 



AhdoiJten black, beneath delicately crenate, clothed with very 

 short, yellow pubescence ; the posterior margin of the last segment 

 yellow. 



Length, 2|- — 3 lines. 



Deal and Sheerness, July and August ; " 10th June, under 

 rejectamenta, on the sands of Wareham Harbour; 11th July, 

 under Fuci, sea-shore, Holy wood, A. H. Haliday, Esq. ; August, 

 salt marshes, Poole Harbour, and AVhittlesea Mere" (Curtis, 

 B. E., xii, 518). 



Sjjecies 10. — Salda riparia. 



Salda eipakia, Fall. Hem. Suec. 72, 2 (1S29) ; Sahib. Geoc. Feii. 151,2, 

 var. 2 (1818); Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. vii, 02 (18C3). 

 AcANTHiA ScoTiCA, Curt. B. E. xii, 518, 12 (1S35). 

 Salda hirsutula, Flor, Rliyu. Liv. i, 708, 1 (1860). 

 — LiioKALis, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 238, 15 (1859) ; Europ. 

 Hem. 117, 15 (1861). 



Elliptic, black, clothed with fine, yellow, appressed hairs, mix§d with 

 fine, long, projecting, black hairs. Clavus with 1 long, sub- 

 apical yellow spot ; corium with 6 yellow spots.* Face, under- 

 side of the 1st joint of the antennce, anterior sides of the tliiglis, 

 and a subapical ring on the tilice, yellow. Abdomen above and 

 beneath with fine, short, W'hitish hairs. 



Head shining ; Crown with a yellow spot next the eyes in a line 

 with the ocelli ; Chjpeus yellow or black in the middle ; Face yellow, 

 the central lobe sometimes at the base, or entirely, black. Antennce 

 with fine projecting hairs ; 1st joint with a broad, whitish or yellowish 

 streak down the inner side. Fijcs black, with brown lines. Ocelli 

 red or dusky, with a black pupil. Rostrum black. 



Thorax. — Pronotuvi shining, short-trapeziform ; sides straight ; 

 posterior margin deeply concave across the scutellum, at the ends 

 somewhat roimdly produced over the base of the elytra, the swelling 

 within the hinder angles short, but very convex ; disk, the callosity 

 occupying ^ the length, very convex, the central fovea very deep, 

 the side ones scarcely perceptible, the posterior furrow deep but 



* Curtis, /. c, says tliere are 8 spots on the cli/tra, but iucUiding thut on the 

 clavus we see at most only 7. 



