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BRITISH EEMIPTEEA—ADDYnOl!f AL SPECIES. 



BY J. W. DOUGLAS. 



OCULATINA. 

 SALDID2E. 



Salda opacula. 

 Salda opacula, Zett., Ins. Lap. 2G8, 12, 8 (1840) ; Thorns., Opiisc. iv, 

 407, 13 (1871) ; nee Ficb., Ent. Monats., vii, 62 (1SG3). 

 „ costalis, F. SaWb., Geoc. Fenn., 152, 5 (1818) ; nee Tlioins., 



Opusc. iv, 406, 10. 

 „ marginaJis, H.-Schf., Wanz., ix, 130, t. 306, fig. 943 {margmella 

 in tab.) (1833) ; nee Fall, Flor, Stal ; nee 8. marginella, Fieb., 

 Eur. Hem., 145, 8. 

 Oval, black, with very short, fine, golden, silky pubescence. 

 Pronofum — sides straight. Elytra dull ; anterior margin regularly and 

 narrowly testaceous throughout, except at the base ; disc with long 

 testaceous streaks, often obscure, and a posterior whitish spot. 



Head shining ; clypeus — margin much incrassated towards the sides, whitish ; face 

 •whitish ; eyes brown, large, much divergent posteriorly. Antennce black, 1st 

 joint broadly testaceous on the inner side. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax : pronotum shining, trapeziform, sides straight, flattened, anterior callus large, 

 convex, with one small, deep, central fovea, the adjoining posterior furrow deep. 

 Scutellum shining, spotless, a largo wide fovea on the basal portion. Elytra 

 dull ; clavus — posteriorly with an elongate testaceous spot ; coriutn — anterior 

 margin flatly reflexed, especially at the base, and except the basal third and 

 extreme apex, regularly linear-testaceous ; exterior to the black middle nerve 

 the colour is broadly irregularly testaceous, becoming narrow posteriorly, where, 

 on the exterior black area is a distinct, elongate, whitish spot ; beyond the nerve 

 the colour is again broadly testaceous, interrupted in the middle, the basal part 

 having a black, isolated dash giving the appearance of an ocellus, the posterior 

 part clear ; more inwardly is a slender, sinuate, testaceous line not extending 

 to base or apex, followed by a spot of the same colour, and another similar spot 

 is on the inner posterior angle : some or all of the markings on the inner half 

 of the corium are sometimes obliterated ; wie>«6raMe testaceous with black nerves, 

 and sometimes a small black spot between them. Leys testaceous ; ihiyhs 

 internally with darker spots ; tibicB base and apex, tarsi, last joint, black. 



Abdomen black, shining, with golden pubescence, the poaterior margin of the last 

 three or four segments pale testaceous. Length, li lines. 



Several examples taken by Dr. F. Buchanan "White, at Braemar, 

 in 1871. 



S. opacula, Zett., is erroneously cited as a synonym of S. margi- 

 nalis, Fall., by Fieber, /. c, by D. and S., Brit. Ilcm., i, 524, 6, and 

 Strd, (Kf. Vet. Ak. Forh., 391, 8 (1S68). 



