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__» S. scotica, Curt. (riparia, D. § S.).—Elongate oval, 
black, clothed with erect black hairs, elytra with small oval 
ochreous spots. Antenne with the second joint subequal 
to the third and fourth together; pronotum with the sides 
straight, narrowly reflexed, fringed with long hairs, posterior 
angles obtuse, base widely and deeply sinuate across the 
scutellum, disc with a strong transverse impression and a 
tubercular elevation subdivided in the middle in front of it ; 
scutellum convex, with a strong central impression; elytra 
with the sides slightly rounded, the pale spots placed one 
near the apex of the clavus, two between the central nerves 
of the corium, and four along the apical margin of the 
corium ; all these vary in size, and are liable to be absent ; 
membrane fully developed, smoky, black at the base, 
nervures black; legs, with the apices and sides of the 
femora, the apices of the tibiae and the bases of the anterior 
pair, and the second joint of all the tarsi, pale. 
L. 6 mm. 
Lustleigh Cleave, Dartmoor, Lastingham, Rannoch, 
Marshall; Church Stretton, Brecon, Blatch ; Strathglass, 
F. B. White ; Morayshire, Forres, Norman ; Perth, Reuter ; 
Llantrissant, Billups ; Ullswater, Belfast, Dale; Bettws- 
y-Coed, Wales, Wollaston; Isle of Bute and Cartland 
Craigs, Curtis ; Willaston, Cheshire, J. W. Ellis; New- 
castle (Ireland), Champion. 
S. littoralis, Zinn.—Short oval, dull, black, without 
erect hairs, but clothed with very fine adpressed golden 
pubescence ; elytra with very small inconspicuous pale spots, 
or entirely black. Antenne with the first and second joints 
piceous, second distinctly shorter than the third and fourth 
together; pronotum with the sides behind the anterior con- 
striction slightly rounded, widely reflexed ; posterior angles 
acute, blunt at the apex; disc with a deep transverse im- 
pression, raised and rounded in front of it, with a small 
round fovea in the front of the elevation; scutellum with 
a deep central impression, transversely wrinkled posteriorly ; 
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