520 OCULATINA. 



Species 3. SALDA PULCHELLA. 



ACANTHIA PULCHELLA. Curt. B. E. xii, p. and pi. 548 (1835). 



BICOLOR, Curt. B. E. xii, p. 548 (1835). 

 SALDA PULCHELLA, H. Schf. Wanz. ix, 131, t. 308, fig. 947 (1850) ; Fieb. 



Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 234, 4 (1859) ; Europ. Hem. 



144, 4 (1861). 



Ovate, black, slightly shining. Antenna ; 1st and 2nd joints (and 

 sometimes the 3rd) brownish-yellow ; pronotum ; sides broadly 

 pale ochreous. Elytra variable in colour ; in the ^ usually 

 black j anterior margin of the corium broadly pale ochreous, 

 interrupted before the apex by a large piceous blotch ; mem- 

 brane ochreous, suffused with fuscous: in the $ the corium 

 usually dull ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous, with 

 a posterior black, marginal spot ; membrane dull ochreous ; 

 thighs pale ochreous, with 2 long, brown streaks ; tibia ochreous, 

 in the $ yellow-brown. 



Head. Crown black, in front with fine yellow hairs ; Face pale 

 ochreous. Antennae with fine, short, black hairs ; 1st joint yellow, 

 brown beneath ; 2nd yellow, brownish, or brown (usually palest in 

 the $ ) ; 3rd and 4th piceous, the 3rd rarely brown. Eyes piceous. 

 Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous, 1st joint, base of 2nd, and the 

 lalrum, yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum short trapeziform, the callosity with a large 

 depression in the centre and a small one on each side of it, before 

 and behind it a row of very fine punctures ; sides pale ochreous, in 

 the $ in an almost parallel stripe, somewhat narrower at the pos- 

 terior margin ; in the $ , the ochreous colour widened posteriorly 

 and going round the posterior angle of the callosity ; sides and pos- 

 terior portion finely punctate-crenate. tScutellum finely crenate, the 

 basal -J with a large, subtrapezoidal depression, of which the posterior 

 margin is rather sharply denned ; the apical -|, at times, with 2 large 

 brown-yellow spots. Elytra ; Clavus and Corium with rather large 

 punctures and very short hairs ; Clavus in the $ black, in the $ 

 ochreous or clouded with brown ; Corium in the <$ black, the out- 

 side on the basal \ broadly ochreous, the colour inwardly dentate ; 



