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A. Membrane icith Jive long areoles : 



1. S. signoretii. 



Salda signoretii Giierin, La Sagra's Hist. Nat. de I'lle de Cuba, Hemipt., 401, pi 



13, fig. 10. 

 Acanthia signoretii Stal, Euuru. Hemipt., iii, 148, No. 1. 



Oval, sand-yellow with black markings, or black with sand-yellow 

 markings, all over minutely sericeous pubescent. Head more or less 

 marked with black between the eyes and behind, omitting the amber 

 ocelli and two spots on the vertex, or with only two small black spots 

 on the vertex ; gula with a broad black spot ; the emarginated inner 

 side of the eyes generally black. Antennas yellow or pale piceous, the 

 basal joint black beneath and at base ; second joint blackish or dusky 

 beneath ; third and fourth sometimes blackish beneath, the latter almost 

 as short as the basal one, the third longer. Rostrum reaching to behind 

 the middle cox?e, piceous or black, with the basal joint pale. Face with 

 a longitudinal groove, and the cranium with a few wrinkles and ridges. 

 Pronotum wide, deeply concave behind, with the humeral angles drawn 

 out obliquely into broad, flat lobes, with a little hump at the outer 

 corner ; surface finely pubescent, closely, finely, obsoletely punctate ; 

 with a dull black spot on the disk of the anterior lobe, which sometimes 

 runs back narrower to the base, and on each humeral angle a black spot. 

 Antepectus sand-yellow, but generally with the middle line of the ster- 

 num black; mesosternum, excepting its lateral lobes and posterior 

 margin, black; metasternum also black. Legs sand-yellow, the coxae 

 more or less black, as also the apex of the tibiae, and a band on the tips 

 of the second and third tarsal joints ; nails generally testaceous. Scu- 

 tellum black, minutely punctate, finely pubescent, arcuately impressed 

 before the middle and with a slight elevated hump each side, usually 

 carrying a yellow spot; the apex acute, broadly yellow, or with two 

 yellow, approximate spots, the lateral edges sometimes yellow. Corium 

 sand-yellow, or whitish and yellow, minutely punctate and pubescent, 

 marked with black or fuscous in very varying proportions, generally 

 with a double black spot on the costal area before the middle, a similar 

 spot behind the middle, and a smaller rounded one at tip ; disk next the 

 clavus and the clavus fuscous or blackish, the latter sometimes with a 

 small yellow spot near the inner posterior angle, the former very often 

 with a large yellow spot on the middle of the posterior margin, and 

 often the margin itself yellow; membrane sand-yellow, sometimes 

 clouded with fuscous, and with a short transverse black baud at base, 

 the nervures piceous, long, and nearly straight. Venter pale yellow, 

 finely pubescent, more or less blackish at base, and streaked on the disks 

 of the segments each side, and sometimes with a row of black points a 

 little way from the lateral margin ; the genital segments and ovipositor 

 more or less blackish. The spots on the costal area are frequently want- 

 ing, or have only traces present ; occasionally the tip of the slender 

 cuneus is black. Generally the whitisli spots at the apex of the discoidal 

 area of the corium are present and very conspicuous. 



