SALDID-E. 533 



Species 12. — Salda elegantula. 



Salda elegantula, Fall. Hem. Suec. 75. 7 (1829) ; Ha/iu, Wanz. ii, SI, 

 t. 55, fig. ICS (1S31) ; Fleb. Wien. Ent. Mouats. 

 iii, 240, 19 (1S59) ; Flor, Ehyu. Liv. i, 720, 9, p. 

 (1860); Fied. Europ. Hem. 148, 19 (1861). 



AcANTiiiA CocKsii, Qii'L B. E. 348, 10 (1835). 



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

 apex ; 2nd joint yellow except the base ; 3rd and 4th joints 

 thickest. Pronotum loug-trapeziform ; clavus sometimes with 

 a small apical spot ; corhim with erect black hairs ; anterior 

 margin flattened throughout, yellow, the colour spreading from 

 the base on to the disk into a long angular spot, ending beyond 

 the middle of the length ; near the posterior margin a rounded, 

 clear-white, conspicuous spot, and 2 gray spots on the disk ; 

 membrane brownish-yellow, the margin at the anterior basal 

 angle with a large, angulated, yellow spot. Le<^s pale yellowish- 

 brown. 



Head constricted behind the eyes into a very short neck ; Clypeus 

 with a ie'i^, long, prominent hairs. Antennce stout, black, very 

 finely haired ; 1st joint on the apical 3rd yellow ; 2ud yellow, except 

 the base; 3rd and 4th very stout, fusiform. Eyes black, with 

 brown streaks. Ocelli black. Bostrum brown ; Jahrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long-trapezoidal, smooth, very convex, much 

 constricted in front ; sides narrowly flattened in the middle, at the 

 hinder angles incrassated, with a furrow internally running out on 

 the posterior margin ; hinder angles obtuse ; posterior margin 

 slightly, regularly concave throughout ; disk, callosity extending i 

 the length, the central fovea deep, the posterior furrow very deep, 

 sides anteriorly with a few projecting hairs. Scutellum smooth, the 

 central depression straiglit behind. Elytra convex ; Clavus and 

 Coriiim black, with very short, appressed, yellow pubescence, and 

 long, erect, black hairs ; Coriuin ; anterior margin much rounded, 

 the edge brown, within the margin horizontal and yellow through- 

 out the length, the colour extending on to the disk, beginning at 

 the base, and extending onwards in the form of a long triangle, of 

 which the inner side is bounded by the 1st nerve ; the colour ends 



