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clothed with erect black hairs and prostrate golden pubescence; front a 

 little flattened; vertex with an indented point each side near the eye; 

 ocelli small, pale piceous; base of head smooth, not obviously punctate, 

 a little convex, forming a moderate neck; tylus very slightly prominent, 

 shining, pale fulvous; lower edge of the clypeus fulvous, very slenderly 

 recurved ; labrum broad, fulvous, invested with pale yellow bristles. Ros- 

 trum testaceous, reaching upon the posterior coxae. Antennje short, 

 moderately slender, the basal joint short and stout, testaceous; the sec- 

 ond quite slender, pale piceous, testaceous at the base and piceous at tip, 

 about twice as long as the basal one; it and the following joints with re- 

 mote erect hairs; two last joints subequal, long, subfusiform, blackish, 

 longer than the basal joint. Pronotum transverse, contracted at the 

 column, flattened, the sides oblique but arcuated, with the submargin mod- 

 erately broadly flattened, of almost uniform width throughout, a little 

 upturned, thick, a little turned in and widened at the poserior angles; 

 posterior margin moderately deeply concave, the humeral angles pro- 

 duced, broad, short, scooped out; anterior lobe with the callosities feebly 

 elevated, but not nearly extending to the lateral margin, the transverse 

 line deeply seated ; posterior lobe about one-third the length of the an- 

 terior one, indistinctly rugulose. Scutellum not distinctly punctate, short 

 and wide, deeply lunately impressed on the middle, the surface beneath the 

 dense pubescence polished, jet-black. Sternum jet-black, polished, finely 

 whitish pubescent, the pieces of the mesopleura more or less white. 

 Coxae piceous, paler at the tip; legs pale orange or fulvous, the spines 

 and extreme tip of the tibiae, the basal joint of tarsi, the end of the apical 

 joint, and the nails piceous. Hemelytra flat, disk-like, the costal margin 

 almost semicircular, narrowly flattened and upturned, pale yellow, not 

 wider at base; corium velvety-blackish, densely coated with prostrate 

 golden pubescence and with longer blackish hairs; costal area very wide, 

 with a testaceous spot on the middle entering from the outer margin, 

 and a similar one before the tip; nearly one-half of the posterior margin 

 running from the outer angle testaceous, and the inner edge of the clavus 

 very narrowly of the same color ; disk with about four round bluish spots, 

 and a similar spot near the apex of the clavus; membrane fuscous, a 

 spot at the inner angle, the inner margin, the posterior submargin, and 

 an apical spot, four spots on the bases of the areoles, and four near their 

 tips pale testaceous. Venter black, terminated with white, and closely 

 invested with prostrate whitish pubescence. 



"Length to tip of hemelytra, ZVz-^Vz mm. Width of base of pronotum, 

 11^-2 mm. Width across hemelytra, 2-2% mm. 



"This neat and unusual form of Salda has a very wide range of distri- 

 bution. It occurs in Eastern Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, 

 Illinois, and Texas, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology has speci- 

 mens from Calaveras and San Diego, Cal." — Uhler. 



Van Duzee adds Ohio. 



Saldula explanata Uhler 1893. ' 



Uhler, Proc. Ento. Soc. Wash., II, p. 383, 1893. 



"Subelliptical, deep dull black, but lustrous when the surface is rubbed, 

 Similar to S. brachynota Fieber of Europe, but the pronotum is broader 

 than in that species, and there is an absence of white marking on the 

 basal part of the costa. Head and antennae black, the latter sometimes 

 piceous at base; the rostrum piceous beyond the base, reaching to the 

 posterior coxae. Pronotum nearly lunate, not deeply but broadly sinuated, 

 with the humeral ends as wide, flat, rounded lobes, the lateral margins 

 moderately curved, prominently reflexed, with the submargin concurrently 

 broadly sulcated. Hemelytra a very little wider than the pronotum, with 

 the costa wide, and acutely reflexed, corium with two or three small 

 groups of obsolete pale specks; membrane with the areoles pale, and each 

 marked in the middle with a black dot. Tibiae pale piceous on the middle. 



