aS {July, 
nerves; nerves yellowish, each with three elongate, fuscous-black spots: mem- 
brane dingy whitish, nerves straight and pale, the intervals infuscated. Ster- 
num: the posterior margin of the segments, a spot next the coxe, and the 
odoriferous stigmata, pale ochreous or stramineous. Legs: thighs black, first 
pair on the anterior half more or less yellowish, with black dots in rows ; 
second and third pairs yellowish at apex ; tibie fuscous-brown, darker at apex, 
narrowly black at base ; tavsi concolorous with the tibiee, extremity of the joints, 
and claws, darker. 
Abdomen: the margin of the posterior segments pale ochreous. Length 14 line, dg. 
Described from a single example taken many years ago, locality 
not recorded (Douglas). This species comes next to NV. thymi, Wolff, 
from which it is at once seen to differ in being smaller, narrower, and 
black, with black legs. The specimen varies somewhat from the de- 
scription in the Eur. Hem., but it has been seen by Dr. Fieber, who has 
determined it to be his V. maculatus. 
Section 11.—OctLaTIna. 
Family.—_SALDIDA. 
Genus.—SALDA, Fad. 
SALDA ARENICOLA, 
Salda arenicola, Scholtz, Arb. u. Verind., 6,5 (1846): Fieb., Wien. 
Ent. Monats., i, 236, 9 (1859) ; Europ. Hem., 146, 9 (1861). 
Long-oval, black, slightly shining, with golden, silky pubesence ; 
antenne, first joint at the sides, second at the apex, fulvous; cuneus 
with a sub-apical whitish spot ; corium with a large, whitish, transverse, 
dentate blotch before the middle, extending from the anterior margin 
to the clavus, and eight or nine very small, posterior, whitish spots ; 
tibie with a distinct, yellow, sub-apical ring. 
Head : antenne slender, black, with fine, short, projecting hairs, second joint twice 
as long as the first, third rather longer than the first, fourth rather shorter 
than the third; the first on both sides, the second at the apex on the upper- 
side, fulvous; eyes black with a fulvous line at the base; rostrwm black, base 
externally, and the labrum fulvous. 
Thorax: pronotum short, delicately punctured, sides narrowly flattened, margins 
slightly curved outwards, the edge scarcely reflexed ; posterior margin deeply 
excavate over the base of the scutellum, produced squarely over the base of 
the corium ; disc anteriorly with a moderate callosity, in which is one trans- 
verse fovea. Scutel’um finely crenate-punctate or shagreened, before the 
middle a large, deep, transverse fovea. Elytra: clavus and coriwm finely, ob- 
tusely punctate, or shagreened ; clavus with a white, sub-apical spot; coriwm 
witha large, irregular, white blotch before the middle, extending from the 
anterior margin of the clavus, its upper edge straight, the lower one dentate 
