518 OCULATINA. 



Species 1. SALDA PILOSA. 



SALDA PILOSA, Fall. Mon. Cim. 29, 3 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 74, 5 (1829) ; 



Burra. Handb. ii, 216, 2 (1835); Fieb. Wien. Ent. 



Mouats. iii, 233, 1 (1859) ; Europ. Hem. 144, 1 (1861). 

 ACANTHIA PILOSA, Germ. Faun. Ins. 10, 15, 



Dusky-luteous ; above clothed with close, short, yellow hairs, mixed 

 with longer, stronger, projecting black hairs; beneath with 

 yellow hairs only. Ifead, pronotum, (except the sides) and 

 clavus (except the apex), dull black. 



Head:. Crown black, luteous next the eyes ; Face luteous. An- 

 tenna clothed with appressed yellow hairs, mixed with long, promi- 

 nent, black hairs ; 1st and 2nd joints luteous, 1st piceous beneath ; 

 3rd and 4th brown or black. Eyes piceous, more or less yellow 

 round the base on the upper side. Ocelli luteous, black in the 

 centre. Rostrum luteous, 2nd and 3rd joints brown beneath. 



Thorax. Pronotum short trapeziform ; sides with a more or less 

 parallel, broad luteous stripe, which is sometimes widened posteriorly ; 

 disk at frds of its length, with a slight transverse channel, deepest 

 outwardly. Scutellum black, sometimes with the apex, and a streak 

 on the sides, luteous. Elytra ; Clavus black, sometimes luteous on 

 the last 3rd ; Corium luteous, or piceous with luteous streaks, or 

 luteous with the base and a posterior spot on the anterior margin 

 black ; anterior margin reflexed ; Membrane luteous, smooth ; nerves 

 brown except at the base, and with prominent short hairs. Sternum 

 black ; Prosternum with the sides and round the base of the coxa3 

 broadly ochreous, anterior and posterior margins narrowly ochreous ; 

 Mesosternum with a large ochreous spot at the base of the coxae. 

 Legs luteous ; coxa piceous at the base ; thighs paler, with long 

 yellowish projecting hairs, and a few black ones towards the apex ; 

 on the upper side, large brown spots in 2 rows, confluent towards 

 the apex ; hinder side with a piceous stripe ; under, anterior and 

 outer sides 1 row of brown spots ; tibia at the end brown, with 

 rows of fine black spines mixed with long black and shorter yellow 

 hairs ; tarsi finely haired, with long, spinose, black hairs beneath 

 and at the ends of the joints ; the end of the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 piceous. 



