SALDIDyE. 531 



narrow. ScuteUum sliiuing, veiy delicately punctate-crenate, rather 

 convex, tlie depression very large, its margin posteriorly straighter 

 than the rest of the circumference. Elytra dull, smooth ; Clavus 

 with 1 long, yellow spot towards the apex ; claval suture finely 

 punctured; Corlum ; anterior margin, on the first §rds, broadly, 

 roundly reflexed ; disk towards the middle with 2 large, distant, 

 yellow spots, and 3 or 4 others in a row within, and along the poste- 

 rior margin; Menibrmie dusky-yellow, the base at the inner angle 

 with a large black spot ; across the middle a brown band, appearing 

 sometimes as spots between the nerves ; nerves, and the anterior 

 margin of the membrane, piceous. Legs black ; tliighs on the anterior 

 side and the apex yellow ; tihi<s with projecting black hairs, before 

 the apex a brown-yellow ring, and on the 1st pair also another ring 

 beyond the base ; tarsi black, 2nd joint yellow-brown. 



Abdomen above and beneath with fine, short, whitish hairs. 



Length, 2i— 2f lines. 



"Isle of Bute and Cartland Craigs, August and September" 

 (Curtis) ; Bettws-y-Coed, N. "Wales (WoUaston). 



Species 11. — Salda cincta. 



Salda cixcTA, H.Schf. Wanz. vi, 40, t. 194, fig. 598 (1842); Sahib. 

 Geoc. Fen. 153, 7 (1S48); Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 

 240, 20 (1859) ; Europ. Hem. 148, 20 (18G1). 

 — ELEGAXTULA, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 720, 9, p. (1S60). 



Long-ovate, black, shining. Atttennce black ; 1st joint yellow at the 

 apex ; 3rd and 4th joints not thicker than the 2nd. Fronotuin 

 loug-trapeziform ; clavus with a small sub-apical spot ; corium 

 with fine, scattered, yellow pubescence; anterior margin flat- 

 tened throughout, yellow, its base, a large spot beyond the 

 middle, and the apex, black ; disk with 2 large bluish-gray spots, 

 4 or 5 small whitish spots, and 1 large, round, clear white, close 

 to the posterior margin ; me^nlrane ochreous ; nerves (except 

 the 1st) black; beyond the middle a row of brown spots; 

 anterior margin yellow, with a large black spot at the end of 

 the 1st nerve, the remainder of the margin fuscous, paler in* 

 wardly. Legs ochreous. 



