IQ [June, 



S. marginalis, Fall., is distinguished by its more ovate form, and 

 Bpecially by the hamate mark on the inner side of the less regular 

 pale margin of the elytra, as described in the " Brit. Hem.," I. c. In 

 S. opacula, Zett., the yellow colour of the margin of the elytra is 

 linear throughout. 



Salda palustbis, n. sp. 



Broad-oval, deep black, finely punctate, densely clothed with 

 decumbent black hairs mixed with delicate, short, golden pubescence. 

 Antennae black, 1st joint testaceous with brown or blackish spots, or 

 externally black ; 2nd, testaceous towards the apex. Pi'onotum — sides 

 slightly rounded. Elytra dull ; clavus with a spot towards the apex ; 

 corimn, anterior margin in the middle with a long line followed by a 

 shorter one, two spots on the disc, and one in the posterior inner 

 angle, the middle nerve with a line on each side, the ocellate spot in- 

 distinct, — all pale ochreous. Legs testaceous ; thighs black beneath, 

 brown-spotted inside ; tihicB — outwardly with a black line. 



Head shining ; clypeus margin slightly incrassated, mostly testaceous ; face testaceous, 

 thickly clothed with golden hairs. Antennce black ; 1st joint testaceous, ex- 

 ternally black ((?), or with blackish or brown cloudy spots (?). Rostrum 

 piceous. 



Thorax : pronotum shining ; sides slightly rounded ; anterior callus moderate, with 

 one central fovea, and in front and behind a row of close, deep punctures. 

 Scutellum with a sub-basal and a posterior depression, posterior portion crenulate. 

 Elytra : clavus shining, a small spot towards the apex ; corium dull, the black 

 decumbent hairs giving a rastrate appearance, anterior margin at the base 

 flattened, crenate, in the middle a long narrow line followed by a short one not 

 extending to the apex, the two being often connected by a stiU finer marginal 

 line ; on the disc nearly opposite the lower end of the long line is a longish 

 spot, and posterior to it a small one ; in the posterior inner angle an obhquo 

 spot ; the usual ocellate ring faint and imperfect ; the middle nerve bordered, 

 externally throughout by a very fine line, internally by a short broad one reacliing 

 to the posterior margin — -all these markings pale ochieons; membrane pale 

 ochreous, nerves strong, black, a long fuscous spot in each c^'ll, margin tinged 

 ■with fuscous, but at the base, externally and internally, for some distance 

 either wholly black, or with a basal pale line or spot. Legs testaceous, with 

 black hairs and spines ; thighs beneath with a black line, inner side with brown 

 spots ; iihicB outwardly with a black line from the base, short and spot-like in 

 the third pair, apex black or blackish, spines on the thh'd pair longer and stronger ; 

 tarsi, last joint with the apical fourth black. 



Abdomen — beneath shining, densely clothed with pale golden or silvery pubescence. 



Length, li — IJ line. 



Some examples are almost wholly black, but the pale, narrow mar- 

 ginal and middle lines of the corium are always more or less visible. 



