The experimentally known energies of the ls22s--, ls2s(~S, 3S)3p transitions are considered for lithium to calcium. Their differences from the corresponding He-like resonances are fitted to the atomic number by means of a polynomial function and, through interpolation, the Wavelengths for nitrogen to sodium are calculated.An isoelectronic investigation, concerning satellite spectra, has been carried out along the lithium sequence.Although satellite lines due to jumping electrons with principal quantum number n > 2 are present in flare spectra, so far not much has appeared in the atomic literature, especially for the first and medium ions of the sequence. Recently, new laboratory data have become available for the case n = 3 in low-Z elements (Kennedy and Carroll, 1978; Jannitti etal., 1985a; Tr~ibert etaL, 1985). The energy trend of the transitions 1s22s 2 S ~ ls2s(tS)(3S)3p 2p has been examined in the range 3 < Z < 20: predictions are provided for the medium-Z ions, well obnserved during flares (Phillips et al., 1982;Doschek, 1972), but whose identifications are missing in the literature. Some uncertain attributions can be confirmed, although a few others should probably be revised.The term value in Rydberg units is given by T = (Z -S)2/n 2 where the parameter S accounts for the screening effect. Neglecting fine structure, the wavenumber a of a transition between orbitals n = 3 and n = 1 is then equal to