SALDID^. 525 



Elytra ; Clavus and Coriwin velvety black ; anterior margin of the 

 latter (except the base and a more or less broad interruption beyond 

 the middle) yellow, the colour at first broad, widened on its inner 

 side along the 1st nerve, into a dentate mark, then gradually nar- 

 rower and wholly or partially interrupted beyond the middle, reap- 

 pearing as a large triangle within the apex, or only on the margin 

 and as an oval spot above the apex ; the apex itself black ; Mem- 

 brane dull, dark yellowish, with a darker transverse band beyond the 

 middle; sometimes in the 3rd cell, near the base, a brown spot; 

 anterior margin, as far as the 1st nerve, more or less black ; nerves 

 brown. Sometimes, according to Elor, the entire membrane is uni- 

 colorous gray-brown. Legs finely haired, brownish-yellow; thighs 

 piceous in the middle ; tibia narrowly brown at the apex ; tarsi ; on 

 the hinder legs more or less piceous. 



Length, \\ line. The smallest species. 



Scarce. Taken by Mr. Dale, in wet places on the heath by 

 Lewell plantation, near Dorchester, from July to October. 



Species 7. SALDA STELLATA. 



ACANTHIA STELLATA, Curt. B. E. 12, 548, 14 (1835). 



SALDA C. ALBUM, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 236, 10 (1859) ; Europ. 



Hem. 146, 10 (1861). 

 ARENICOLA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 718, 7 (1860) 



Short, broad-ovate, black, clothed with short yellow hairs. Clavus 

 with a narrow pointed spot towards the apex ; corium with 

 several small yellow spots in rows, and 2 large and long on the 

 anterior margin, of which latter the 1st is the largest, [-formed, 

 with a large black spot on its inner side, and joined to the 1st 

 nerve ; membrane yellow ; nerves broadly black ; in each cell 

 an oval black spot ; margin at first yellow, with a large sub- 

 quadrate black spot, then fuscous. Legs yellow; tibia black 

 at the base and end ; the 1st and 2nd pairs black or brown in 

 the middle, on the 2nd pair forming a ring. 



Head. Clypeus with the margin yellow-brown, not prominent ; 

 Face and labrum dusky yellow-brown. Antenna; 1st joint and end 

 of the 2nd yellow-brown, the 1st black beneath ; 3rd and 4th black. 



