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with the lateral edge sharp, and with a median ridge. Rostrum reach- 

 ing almost to the middle of the posterior coxae (in one specimen, not ex- 

 tending beyond the intermediate coxse) , piceous-black, paler or yellowish 

 at tip. Antennae moderately long and slender, thickly clothed with fine, 

 projecting, black hairs, a few of which are stouter; basal joint yellowish- 

 brown above, dark at base, and beneath, with the basal two-thirds, 

 blackish; second joint slender, dull yellowish, piceous at base and tip, a 

 little shorter than the third and fourth united; third and fourth a little 

 stouter, subfusiform, dusky black, subequal in length. Pronotum sub- 

 trapezoidal, the posterior lobe transversely flat, the anterior lobe convex, 

 reaching two-thirds of the length, smooth, bounded by a deeply impressed 

 line each side and behind, its central fovea small ; sides flattened, the 

 recurved edge bending abruptly downward before reaching the collum; 

 posterior third of disk finely crenate-punctate. Scutellum finely crenate- 

 punctate, finely rugulose behind, the depression large, somewhat incurved 

 and well defined. Legs dull yellow; the femora with short, yellow hairs, 

 the anterior ones blackish on the outside, and the middle and posterior 

 ones with two rows of brown dots on each of the outer and inner sur- 

 faces; tibije with short brown hairs and remote stouter black hairs; first 

 and last joints of the tarsi blackish, the second joint and nails dull 

 yellow. The tarsi are often soiled yellow, with blackish hairs, and with 

 only traces of dusky on the ends of the first and last joints. Venter 

 shining black, very minutely rugulose, clothed with fine sericeous, 

 yellowish, prostrate pubescence, the posterior margins of the segments 

 often pale piceous, and apex of the terminal segment yellow. 



"Hemeltyra minutely scabrous, golden sericeous, appressed pubescent; 

 generally with an oblong yellow spot near the end of the clavus; corium 

 marked on the disk with a longitudinal series of four long, yellow spots 

 between the first and second nervules, and near the tip with one or two 

 smaller spots placed more inwardly; costa.1 margin broadly arcuated, 

 turned up, the submargin depressed, broader at base; membrane pale 

 brownish or dirty yellow, sometimes short, and almost confined to the 

 inner length of the corium, the cuneus black and coriaceous, inclosing 

 the outer side of the membrane; the areoles with a series of black spots 

 across the middle, more or less blackish at base and tip, and the nervules 

 deep black. 



"Length to tip of venter, .5-6 mm.; to end of membrane, bVz-l mm. 

 Width of base of pronotum, 2-2 1/^ mm. 



"Common in various parts of Europe, as well in the North as in the 

 South. In some parts of England, it inhabits the seashore. Specimens 

 from the United States have thus far been collected only in Illinois and 

 Vtah."—Uhler. 



Van Duzee adds: Quebec, New York, Indiana and California. 



Solda coriacea Uhler 1872. 



Salda coriacea Uhler. Fifth Ann. Rip. U. S. Geog. Surv. for 1871, 1872, p. 421, No. 2. 



"Form similar to that of Salda littoralis Linnaeus, but much nar- 

 rower, very elongate-ovate, black, highly polished, minutely shagreened. 

 Head oblique anteriorly, distinctly shagreened, sericeous pubescent, the 

 base moderately wide, slightly convex, forming a distinct neck; ocelli 

 honey yellow, lacking the raised chevron in front of them, and having 

 traces only of the oblique grooves and central line ; front moderately flat, 

 the tylus prominently raised, polished, bald, cylindrical; the labrum much 

 broader, acutely angular at tip, a little longer than the tylus, and of the 

 same testaceous color, or both black. Eyes large, prominent, brown, 

 placed very obliquely. Rostrum reaching to the posterior coxae, piceous, 

 paler at base and tip. Antennae black, remotely bristly, the first two 

 joints often paler above; the basal joint stout, increasing in thickness 

 beyond the base; the second joint more than twice as long as the first, a 

 very little enlarged at tip; the third and fourth longer than the basal, 



