SALDID^E. 531 



narrow. Scutelhun shining, very delicately punctate-crenate, rather 

 convex, the depression very large, its margin posteriorly straighter 

 than the rest of the circumference. Elytra dull, smooth ; Clavus 

 with 1 long, yellow spot towards the apex ; claval suture finely 

 punctured; Corium ; anterior margin, on the first rds, broadly, 

 roundly reflexed ; disk towards the middle with 2 large, distant, 

 yellow spots, and 3 or 4 others in a row within, and along the poste- 

 rior margin ; Membrane dusky-yellow, the base at the inner angle 

 with a large black spot ; across the middle a brown band, appearing 

 sometimes as spots between the nerves ; nerves, and the anterior 

 margin of the membrane, piceous. Leys black ; thighs on the anterior 

 side and the apex yellow ; tibice with projecting black hairs, before 

 the apex a brown-yellow ring, and on the 1st pair also another ring 

 beyond the base ; tarsi black, 2nd joint yellow-brown. 



Abdomen above and beneath with fine, short, whitish hairs. 



Length, 2f 2| lines. 



"Isle of Bute and Cartland Craigs, August and September" 

 (Curtis) ; Bettws-y-Coed, K Wales (Wbllastori). 



Species 11. SALDA CINCTA. 



SALDA CINCTA, H. Sehf. Wanz. vi, 40, t. 194, fig. 598 (1842); Sahib. 

 Geoc. Fen. 153, 7 (1848); Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 

 240, 20 (1859) ; Europ. Hem. 148, 20 (1861). 

 ELEGANTULA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 720, 9, p. (1860). 



Long- ovate, black, shining. Antennae black ; 1st joint yellow at the 

 apex ; 3rd and 4th joints not thicker than the 2nd. Pronotum 

 long-trapeziform ; clavus with a small sub-apical spot ; corium 

 with fine, scattered, yellow pubescence ; anterior margin flat- 

 tened throughout, yellow, its base, a large spot beyond the 

 middle, and the apex, black ; disk with 2 large bluish-gray spots, 

 4 or 5 small whitish spots, and I large, round, clear white, close 

 to the posterior margin ; membrane ochre ous ; nerves (except 

 the 1st) black; beyond the middle a row of brown spots; 

 anterior margin yellow, with a large black spot at the end of 

 the 1st nerve, the remainder of the margin fuscous, paler in- 

 wardly. Legs ochreous* 



