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BRITISH HEMIPTEBA: ADDITIONS AND CORKECTIONS. 

 BT J. W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



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Section 11. — Ociilatina. 



Family 1. — Saldid^. 



Oenus 1. — Salda, Fab. 

 Species 4*. — Salda conspicua, n. sp., pi. 1, fig. 5. 

 Long-oval, black, with yellow hairs. Antennce long, black, 1st 

 joint broadly yellow inwardly. Pronotum narrow in front, sides 

 straight. Scutellum with two posterior, cuneiform, yellow spots. 

 Corium with 6 — 7, mostly long, spots, and, before the apex, a conspi- 

 cuous large exterior blotch, yellow. Thighs at the base more or less 

 fulvous. 



Head — punctured, clothed with fine yellow, wavy hairs. Crown with a 

 short yellow line close to the eyes, sides of the clypeus much 

 incrassated, yellow. Face, lobes yellow. Antennce long, black, 

 finely haired, 1st joint broadly yellow on the inner side. Eyes 

 black. Ocelli piceous, yellow in the centre. Rostrum black. 

 Pronotum — clothed with fine yellow wavy hairs, long, trapeziform, narrow 

 in front ; sides flattened, the margin straight, scarcely reflexed ; 

 posterior margin very deeply concave across the scutellum ; anterior 

 callosity very large, with a deep fovea in the centre. Scutellum 

 clothed with fine yellow hairs ; basal half depressed posteriorly, 

 punctured ; apical half transversely crenate. Elytra with fine, 

 short, distant, depressed hairs ; Qlavus with a long cuneiform 

 yellow spot before the apex ; Corium, anterior margin forming a 

 long slight curve, disc with 6 (rarely 7) yellow spots, whereof 4, 

 narrow and elongate, are in a line parallel with but not close to the 

 claval suture, 1 larger close to the nerve and the posterior margin 

 (sometimes a small one lies above it), and 1 on the marginal field, 

 near the middle of its length, but distant from the margin ; besides 

 these, on the posterior third of the marginal field, occupying it 

 from the nerve to the margin, is a large sub-quadrate yellow spot, 

 but the apex of the corium beyond is broadly black, in the form of 

 a rounded spot. Membrane ochreous, inner basal angle black ; 

 membrane-suture, nerves, and a long spot in each cell, pitchy-black 

 or fuscous ; exterior to the cells, the membrane is outwardly 

 shaded with fuscous, and below the 1st cell, except next the apex 

 of the corium, is wholly black. Legs long ; thighs black or piceous, 

 base of the Ist pair, basal third of 2nd and 3rd pairs, and apex of 



