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and the elytra entirely opaque. In its general shape it is shorter and relatively broader 
than any of the other Central-American members of the genus. The margins of the 
pronotum are broadly explanate from the base to the apex. 
5. Salda comata, n. sp. (Tab. XX. fig. 6.) 
Oblong-ovate, opaque, the vertex, pronotum, and scutellum slightly shining, the upper surface somewhat 
thickly clothed with moderately long, semierect, blackish hairs, between which a short, fine, golden 
pubescence is visible, the under surface with silvery pubescence; black, the head in front, the lateral 
margins of the pronotum to near the apex, and a space in front of the anterior coxal cavities, flavous or 
whitish, the elytra fuscous, the clavus with a pale streak at the apex, and the corium much variegated 
with lighter colour, especially towards the sides, the membrane pale, with the nervures and some spots 
in the areole fuscous; the antenne fuscous, with the first and second joints partly flavous; the legs 
testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi usually more or less annulated with fuscous, the femora in one specimen 
lined with black on the lower side. Head, pronotum, and scutellum very finely rugulose ; ocelli narrowly 
separated ; antenne pubescent and sparsely pilose, moderately long, slender, joint 2 one-half longer 
than 3, 3 and 4 equal in length; pronotum moderately narrowed in front, narrowly explanate at the 
sides, which are slightly rounded, the anterior lobe with a deep transverse depression in the middle, and 
separated from the posterior lobe by a transverse groove. Elytra minutely punctured; membrane moderately 
long, with four elongate areole. Legs pilose and pubescent, the tibize with scattered sete. 
Length 4-43, breadth 2 millim. (3 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Pedregal (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.). 
There are several specimens of this species in the Vienna Museum, mostly in very 
bad condition. It is the only hairy Central-American Salda known to me that has the 
lateral margins of the pronotum flavous. The coloration of the elytra is variable. 
6. Salda saltatoria. 
Cimex saltatorius, Tann. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 448 (1758) '. 
Acanthia saltatoria, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. it. p, 149°; Reuter, Act. Soc. Fenn. xxi. 2, p. 42°. 
Salda saltatoria, Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. i. p. 334°. 
Hab. Nortu America, British Columbia‘, Canada 3, United States 2 3 4.—GuaTEMALa, 
Quezaltenango 7800 feet (Champion).—Eurorn?; N. Asra3, 
A single female specimen from Guatemala seems to belong to this common holarctic 
species. It has the upper surface somewhat thickly clothed with very short golden 
pubescence, and the pronotum is perhaps a little more narrowed in front than in the 
European examples before me. It is unnecessary to quote the full synonymy here, for 
which see Dr. Reuter’s work 3. 
7. Salda tropicalis, n. sp. (Tab. XX. fig. 7.) 
Ovate, slightly shining, the upper surface clothed with a very short, fine, golden, and the under surface with 
a silvery, pubescence ; black, the head flavous in front, the elytra with a short streak at the apex of the 
clavus and numerous irregular markings on the corium, of which a long streak at the middle of the costal 
margin and a shorter one before the apex are most conspicuous, testaceous or flavous; the membrane pale, 
with the nervures, a spot on the costal margin, and some streaks in the areole fuscous or black; the 
antenne with the base of the first joint and the apex of the second more or less testaceous; the legs 
