Saldide. 183 
L. 3-4 mm. 
Rare. Bournemouth, Shiere, Capron ; Portsmouth, Mon- 
creaf{; Isle of Wight. 
8. Cocksii, Curt. (elegantula, D. 5 S.)—Head black, 
shining, with scattered long hairs, eyes very large and 
prominent, ocelli contiguous, antenne pilose, with the 
first and second joints pale whitish, black at the base, 
third and fourth considerably thickened, black ; pronotum 
black, shining, constricted in front into a narrow collar, 
then produced at each side into a very slight angle, behind 
which the sides are sinuate and then diverge in nearly 
straight lines to the base, which is about twice the width 
of the anterior margin and largely sinuate; disc clothed 
with long bristly hairs, deeply impressed across the middle 
and strongly raised in front of the impression, with a small 
fovea in the elevation; scutellum black, shining, clothed 
like the pronotum and elytra with long bristly hairs ; 
elytra black, dull, the rounded, reflexed lateral margins and 
the inner margin of the clavus, shining, dise with a few 
greyish spots and a conspicuous white round spot near the 
apical margin of the corium, lateral margins pale yellow, 
broadly so at the base and apex of the corium, the pale 
colour almost or quite interrupted behind the middle ; 
membrane usually very short, dark, nervures black; legs 
yellow, apices of tibiz and tarsi black. 
L. 3-3) mm. 
In Sphagnum ; Woking, Chobham, not rare; Fens, Nor- 
folk, Edwards ; Knowle, Bewdley, Coleshill, Cannock 
Chase, Church Stretton, New Forest, Blatch ; Gumley, 
Lincolnshire, W. W. Fowler ; West Ham Marshes, Carp- 
hilly Castle, South Wales, Billwps ; Battle, Frant, Fritton 
Suffolk, Butler ; Glanvilles Wootton, Dale. 
. elegantula, Mall. (Flori, Dohrn.).—Almost identical 
in shape and colour with the preceding, but differing notably 
in the antenne, which have the first joint pale only at the 
apex, the second entirely black, and the third and fourth 
black, not wider than the second, the fourth sometimes 
