THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 181 



NEW GENUS INCLUDING TWO NEW SPECIES OF SALDID/E. 



BY HERBERT OSBORN, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



Saldoida, no'v. gen. 



Head narrower, eyes nearer together than in Salda, ocelli approxi- 

 mate, frontal ridge weak, becoming obsolete at base of tylus, bucculae 

 enlarged ; antenna? with the two distal joints incrassate, rostrum as in 

 Salda, basal joints very thick, second elongate, terminal very slender. 

 Prothorax bearing two very prominent conical tubercles on anterior lobe, 

 which is narrow, cylindrical, not carinate anteriorly ; posterior lobe short, 

 carinate laterally, widening rapidly to humeri. 



Saldoida Slossoni, n. sp. 



Hind angle of pronotum obtuse, not produced into a sharp angle or 

 horn. Eight brown, marked with reddish-yellow and black, face testace- 

 ous. 9— Length to tip of elytra, 3 mm.; width at humeri, scarcely 

 1 mm. 



Head obtusely triangular, subcordate, inclined, the part in front of 

 the eyes nearly equal to eyes in length, very sparsely set with erect hairs ; 

 eyes large ; vertex narrow, less than width of eye ; ocelli minute, set close 

 together ; antennae long, joint two longer than one, equal to three, three 

 much swollen, four equalling one in length, and about half as thick as 

 three ; rostrum reaching to apex of hind coxae. Prothorax with two very 

 large, erect, conical tubercles occupying the upper surface of the anterior 

 lobe ; posterior lobe short, much widened behind, concavely emarginate, 

 the lateral angles obtusely angulate. Scutellum large, anterior border 

 convex, surface polished, minutely punctate, apex inflated, highly polished. 

 Elytral membrane subhyaline, with four cells and a wide margin, wings 

 reaching to tip of elytra, milky hyaline. 



Colour : Vertex black, with margins next eyes red-brown ; face and 

 rostrum testaceous ; antennae, basal two-thirds of second joint and all of 

 third fuscous, apex of one and two whitish, fourth yellowish brown, darker 

 at base and minute tip ; prothoracic tubercles red-brown, posterior lobe 

 yellowish brown, anterior margin and band back of the tubercles black ; 

 scutellum black, apex piceous brown ; elytra brown, claval suture and 

 apical margin of corium black, corium with two triangular whitish spots, 

 the bases of which merge into the hyaline costa, membrane with fuscous 

 base and hyaline apex ; beneath black, with throat, pleural pieces, coxae 

 and legs yellowish brown, darker on disc of coxre, apical portion of femora 



