SALDID^E. 521 



beyond the middle a broad, piceous blotch followed by a large, oval, 

 ochreous spot ; apex piceous : in the $ oclyeous, with a brown mar- 

 ginal spot beyond the middle, or with a central, diagonally trans- 

 verse, brownish band, more or less defined, ending in a darker blotch 

 on the margin, sometimes forming 3 angulated spots ; Membrane 

 dull ochreous, in the $ suffused with brow^n ; nerves brown. Sternum 

 black, the margin of the pro- and mesosternum, and the apex of the 

 coxae, pale ochreous. Leys ; thighs with fine hair, pale ochreous, the 

 inner and posterior sides with a strong piceous line ; tibia in the 

 yellow-brown, in the $ ochreous, with distant, strong, black hairs, 

 base and apex in both sexes usually piceous ; tarsi ochreous, hairy 

 beneath, and with longer black hairs at the junction of the joints ; 

 1st joint, and apex of the 3rd, piceous. 



Abdomen black ; beneath, in the ? , the apex ochreous. 



Length, ? , 1| ; ^,2 lines. 



Common at Lymington Salterns, Hants, in May ; Deal, August. 

 " Isthmus of Portland" (Dale and Curtis). 



Species 4. SALDA ORTHOCHILA. 



SALDA ORTHOCHILA, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 234, 6 (1859); Europ. 

 Hem. 145, 5 (1861). 



LITOBALIS, Fab, S. R. 115, 13 (1803) non Lin.-, Burm. Handb. ii, 



216, 3 (1835). 



LUTEIPES, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 717, 6 (1860) non H. Schf. 



SALTATOBITJS, Panz, F. G. 92, 13, non Lin. 



Ovate, black, slightly shining, clothed with fine, short, yellowish 

 hairs. Elytra dull, the hairs clearer yellow ; clavus with one 

 posterior large yellow spot ; corium with 3 rows of 3 or 4 

 large, long, irregular spots between the nerves, and a posterior 

 marginal spot, yellow. 



Head. The hairs very close and appressed ; Glypeus and lobes of 

 the Face brownish-yellow or yellow. Antennae black, with fine, 

 longish, projecting hairs ; 1st joint brownish -yellow above. Eyes 

 piceous, with light-brown curved lines. Ocelli yellow. Rostrum 

 black, the last joint piceous ; labrum yellowish in the middle. 



Thorax. Pronotum short-trapeziform, narrow in front, sides 

 almost straight, the margins slightly reflexed ; anterior angles 



