Saldide. is 
Lancashire; Burnham Norfolk, and Sandwich Kent, Curtis ; 
Sheppey, Walton-on-Naze, Champion. 
_>S. lateralis, Fall. (var. pulchella, Curt.. D. & S.).— 
Shining, punctured, black and ochreous, glabrous, sides of 
pronotum pale. Head black; face infront ochreous; antenne 
ochreous, darker on the third and fourth joints, basal joint 
witha black spot beneath; pronotum black, with the lateral 
margins narrowly pale throughout, or with the pale colour 
much widened at the base; sides nearly straight, reflexed ; 
posterior angles acute; base deeply sinuate; disc with a 
deep transverse punctured impression, raised in front of it, 
the elevation with three fovex ; scutellum black, sometimes 
pale at the apex; elytra somewhat parallel-sided in the g, 
much dilated posteriorly in the 2, rarely fully developed, 
varying in colour from black, with the margins only pale, 
through more or less spotted varieties to entirely pale; asa 
rule the dark specimens are males; in the developed form 
the membrane is longer than the abdomen, pale, with 
brown nerves ; abdomen black, or pale at the sides; apical 
segment pale; legs pale; femora with black stripes. 
L. 4-5 mm. 
Worthing, Deal; Sheppey, Whitstable, Champion ; salt 
marshes, Hunstanton, Hdwards ; Mumby Chapel, Lincoln- 
shire, J. H, Mason; Hayling, Margate, Billups ; Lyming- 
ton, Weymouth, Blatch ; Topsham, Devon, Parjitt; Rye, 
Collett; Haliday Collection; Portland, Dale; St. Ives, 
Cornwall, Mason; Forres, Norman. 
, S. riparia, Fall. (conspicua, D. § S.).—Velvety black, 
' with a grey sheeny pile, and with rather deep yellow 
markings. Head black, lobes of the face, and a spot along 
the side of each eye yellow; antenne long and stout, first 
joint yellow beneath; pronotum with the anterior margin 
narrowly constricted, the constriction longer than in most 
of the species; sides suddenly widened behind the con- 
striction, straight, slightly reflexed ; posterior angles acute, 
base deeply sinuate, about as wide as the head across the 
