SALUID^E. 527 



Species 8. SALDA PALLIPES. 



SALDA PALLIPES, Fab. S. R. 115, 12 (1803); Fall. Hera. Suec. 73, 4 

 (1829); Zett. Ins. Lap. 267, 4 (1840); H. Schf. 

 Wanz. vi, 43, t. 194, fig. 600 (1842) ; Sahib. Geoc. 

 Fen. 152, 4 (1848); Kolen. Mel. Eiit. vi, 33, 238 

 (1857) ; Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 237, 12 (1859) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 146, 12 (1861). 



SALDA SALTATORIA, Guer. Ic. t. 93, fig. 2 (1829-38). 



ACANTHIA DIMIDIATA, Curt. B. E. xii, 548, 13 (1835). 



SALDA RIPARIA, Zett. Ins. Lap. 267, 5 (1840) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 151, 2 



(1848) ; Kolen. Mel. Ent. vi, 34, 240 (1857). 

 LITTORALIS, Am. et Serv. Hem. 405, 1 (1843). 



Elliptic, broad, black, clothed (except on the corium) with fine, 

 yellow, appressed hairs. Clavus, except the apex, black. Corium 

 with sub-erect, short, black hairs ; base black, the remainder 

 (and the membrane) dull, pale, yellowish white ; between the 

 margin and the 1st nerve, 2 long black spots nearly forming a 

 streak, the 2nd spot interrupted by a white dot ; between the 

 1st and 2nd nerves a black spot with a ring of the ground colour 

 round it, followed by a large black spot ; the remainder of the 

 disk either clear, or spotted more or less, or suffused with 

 black ; membrane with black or brown nerves, between them 

 distinct, long blackish spots in a transverse row. Legs 

 yellow. 



Head. Clypeus on the margin fulvous ; Face ; central lobe gene- 

 rally fulvous. Antennae black, with short hairs; 1st and 2nd joints 

 more or less fulvous at the base and apex, or the 1st fulvous, black 

 above and beneath. Eyes piceous, sometimes at the base fulvous. 

 Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous, labrum fulvous. 



Thorax. Pronotum wide ; sides flattened, the margin rounded, 

 slightly reflexed ; posterior margin very concave across the scutellum, 

 roundly produced over the base of the elytra ; disk, the callosity 

 reaching ^ the length, its central fovea deep, the side impressions 

 obsolete, the posterior furrow deep. Scutellum convex, the central 

 depression deep, sharply defined behind ; base punctured, apical ^ 

 crenate. Elytra convex ; Clavus black, the apex with a large or 

 small yellow spot ; Corium dull ; base black, the colour sharply 

 defined, the remainder of the disk pale yellowish-white; anterior 



