524 OCULATINA. 



short, yellow hairs, on the inner and outer sides with a row of 

 brown punctures ; hinder side of the 1st and 2nd pairs with a black 

 stripe; apex narrowly black, preceded by a clear space; tibiae 

 blackish at base and apex, the 1st and 2nd pairs with a long, sub- 

 annular, brown spot in the middle ; 3rd pair with short, distant, 

 black, spinose hairs; tarsi; 1st and 2nd joints black, the 2nd, and 

 sometimes the base of the 3rd, yellow ; claws brown. 



Abdomen, in the $ , the last segment beneath, posteriorly pale 

 ochreous. 



Length, 1J 2 lines. 



Abundant on the margins of ponds and ditches during the summer, 

 and in winter in moss on damp walls, &c. 



This species, the commonest of the genus, is most like S. stellata, 

 but may easily be distinguished from it by its oval, not egg-shaped 

 form, and by the absence of the [-formed yellow spot on the anterior 

 margin of the corium. 



Species 6. SALDA MARGINALIS. 



SALDA MARGINALIS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 30, 4 (1807); Hem. Suec. 75, 8 

 (1829) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 154, 9 (1848) ; H. Schf. 

 Wanz. ix, 130, t. 306, fig. 943 (1850) ; Flor, Rhyu. 

 Liv. i, 712, 3 (1850) ; non Fieb. 



OPACULA, Zett.Ins. Lap. 268, 8 (1840) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 719, 

 7 (1860). 



Deep black, above dull, beneath shining. Head, pronotum, clavus, 

 and corium with very short, appressed, golden-yellow hairs ; 

 anterior margin of the corium more or less broadly yellow, in- 

 terrupted beyond the middle. 



Head. Clypeus on its incrassated margin, and the Face, pale 

 yellow ; central lobe with a central, longitudinal, brown line. An- 

 tenna with fine short hairs ; 1st and 2nd joints light brown, 3rd and 

 4th piceous. Eyes piceous. Ocelli red. Rostrum piceous ; labrum 

 piceous, yellowish in the middle. 



Thorax. Pronotum short-trapeziform, very finely punctured, the 

 sides straight, their margins delicately reflexed ; the callosity occu- 

 pying the 1st of the disk, its centre with 1 small impression, 

 its posterior margin straight. Scutellum finely crenate-punctate. 



