SALDID^E. 523 



Oval, convex, black, densely clothed with very short yellow hairs. 

 Clavus with a narrow, pointed, subapical, yellow spot ; corium ; 

 on the anterior margin 2 long yellow spots, interior to these a 

 row of 3 spots, the 2nd and 3rd round and white ; beyond these 

 a faint, long, yellow ring on the basal of the disk, followed by 

 a long yellow streak. Legs yellow. 



Head. Clypeus, on its anterior margin, and the Face, pale or 

 dusky yellow. Antennas black, 1st joint above, and generally the 

 2nd before the apex, yellow-brown. Eyes black. Ocelli reddish. 

 Rostrum piceous ; labrum yellowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum roundly narrowed to the front; sides flat- 

 tened, but raised within the hinder angles, the margins rounded, 

 narrowly reflexed ; posterior margin deeply, somewhat squarely con- 

 cave across the scutellum, the ends roundly produced over the base 

 of the elytra; disk very finely punctured, the callosity occupying 

 nearly f rds of the length, the posterior furrow deep, the single cen- 

 tral fovea deep. Scutellum convex, slightly shining ; basal \ finely 

 punctured, posterior \ very finely crenate ; the depression large, 

 posteriorly straight. Elytra dull ; Clavus with a narrow, pointed 

 spot before the apex ; Corium ; sides widely flattened as far as the 

 middle ; the margin with a long, narrow, yellow spot in the middle, 

 and a shorter one before, and not reaching to, the apex ; disk out- 

 side the 1st nerve, with 3 spots in a row, 1 longish, dull yellow, 

 before the middle, the 2 others round and whitish, 1 of them rather 

 beyond the middle, the other opposite the 2nd marginal spot ; 

 beyond the 1st nerve, on the basal |-, a long faint ocellus, formed by 

 a narrow, yellowish, oval ring, enclosing a space of the ground 

 colour, its basal end being clearer ; in a line with this, near the pos- 

 terior margin, a long yellow streak (sometimes there is a faint, yel- 

 lowish, interrupted line more towards the inner margin ; and some- 

 times the whole of the yellowish marks on the corium are of larger 

 size, giving a more speckled appearance) ; Membrane yellowish, the 

 suture and nerves black; the 1st nerve often yellow at its base; 

 between the nerves, beyond the middle, a transverse row of long 

 blackish spots ; nearer the base an irregular black spot in the 2nd, 

 3rd, and 4th cells (sometimes in the 2nd and 3rd only) ; margin 

 with a long black spot at the end of the 1st nerve, preceded and fol- 

 lowed by a yellow spot ; the rest of the margin fuscous-brown, 

 sometimes yellowish internally. Legs pale yellow ; thighs with fine, 



