528 OCULATINA. 



margin broadly flattened on the first 3rd, the edge black, and a 

 black spot at the apex ; between tUe margin and the 1st nerve, 

 2 long, contiguous, black spots, nearly forming a black streak, the 

 2nd spot interrupted by a white dot ; between the 1st and 2nd 

 nerves, on the basal \, a black spot with a broad ring of the ground 

 colour round it ; below the ocellus thus formed a large black spot ; 

 at the end of the 2nd nerve, a black spot sometimes extended to the 

 inner angle ; beyond the 2nd nerve, on the disk, a long black spot ; 

 the nerves black, sometimes pale posteriorly ; sometimes all the black 

 marks (except on the base) are wanting, or sometimes only part of 

 them are present, or more rarely they are run together ; Membrane 

 dull pale yellowish-white, nerves black or dark brown (except the 

 1st, which is pale, with a black spot at its end extending to the pos- 

 terior margin) ; in the cells between them, about the middle, a 

 transverse row of long black spots, and sometimes a larger one 

 nearer the base of the 3rd cell; apical margin generally fuscous. 

 Sternum black. Legs yellow, with fine, short, yellow hairs ; thighs; 

 inner and outer sides with 2 rows of brown punctures, hinder side 

 with a blackish streak, darkest on the 1st pair ; tibia with strong, 

 short, black, spinose hairs ; apex black ; the 1st pair with a black line 

 on the outside ; tarsi ; end of the last joint black, claws brown. 



Abdomen black ; posterior margin of the segments narrowly, of the 

 last segment broadly, yellowish. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



Not rare at Deal, on the banks of pools of brackish water, July ; 

 "10th June, muddy places, Wareham" (Curtis, 1. c.) ; " Ferriby" 

 (Wollaston.) 



Species 9. SALDA LITTORALIS. 



CIMEX LITTORALIS, Lin. F. S. 246, 915 (1761); S. N. 481, 14 (1767). 

 SALDA ZOSTERS, Fab. S. R. 113, 1 (1803) ; Burnt. Handb. ii, 216, 1 

 (1835); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 150, 1 (1848). 



FLAVIPES, Fab. S. R. 114, 3 (1803) ; Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 



238, 14 (1859) ; Europ. Hera. 147, 14 (1861). 



LITTORALIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 71, 1 (1829) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. 267, 



1 (1840); H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 41, t. 194, fig. 599 

 (1842); Kolen. Mel. Eut. vi, 32, 237 (1857); Flor, 

 Rhyn.Liv. 710, 2 (1860) ; Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. 

 vii, 63 (1863). 



MORIO, Zett. Ins. Lap. 267, 3 (1840). 

 SCIODOPTERUS FLAVIPES, Am. et Serv. Hem. 404, 1 (1843). 



