530 OCULATINA. 



Abdomen black, beneath delicately crenate, clothed with very 

 short, yellow pubescence ; the posterior margin of the last segment 

 yellow. 



Length, 2| 3 lines. 



Deal and Sheerness, July and August ; " 10th June, under 

 rejectamenta, on the sands of Wareham Harbour; llth July, 

 under Fuci, sea-shore, Holy wood, A. H. Haliday, Esq. ; August, 

 salt marshes, Poole Harbour, and Whittlesea Mere" (Curtis, 

 B. E. ; xii, 548). 



Species 10. SALDA RIPARIA. 



SALDA RIPARIA, Fall. Hem. Suec. 72, 2 (1S29) ; Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 151, 2, 

 var. 2(1848); Fieb. Wieu. Ent. Monats. vii, 62 (1863). 

 ACANTHIA SCOTICA, Curt. B. E. xii, 548, 12 (1835). 

 SALDA HIRSUTULA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 708, 1 (1860). 

 LiiORALis, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 238, 15 (1859) ; Europ. 

 Hem. 147, 15 (1861). 



Elliptic, black, clothed with fine, yellow, appressed hairs, mixed with 

 fine, long, projecting, black hairs. Clavus with 1 long, sub- 

 apical yellow spot ; corium with 6 yellow spots.* Face, under- 

 side of the 1st joint of the antennce, anterior sides of the thighs, 

 and a subapical ring on the tilice, yellow. Abdomen above and 

 beneath with fine, short, whitish hairs. 



Head shining ; Crown with a yellow spot next the eyes in a line 

 with the ocelli ; Ctypeus yellow or black in the middle ; Face yellow, 

 the central lobe sometimes at the base, or entirely, black. Antennae 

 with fine projecting hairs ; 1st joint with a broad, whitish or yellowish 

 streak down the inner side. Fyes black, with brown lines. Ocelli 

 red or dusky, with a black pupil. Rostrum black. 



Thorax. Pronotum shining, short-trapeziform ; sides straight ; 

 posterior margin deeply concave across the scutellum, at the ends 

 somewhat roundly produced over the base of the elytra, the swelling 

 within the hinder angles short, but very convex ; disk, the callosity 

 occupying the length, very convex, the central fovea very deep, 

 the side ones scarcely perceptible, the posterior furrow deep but 



* Curtis, /. c. } says there are 8 spots on the elytra, but including that on the 

 clavus we see at most only 7. 



