SUBFAMILY II. — SAICIN^E. 541 



Ala., August (W.S.B.). Blantyre, N. Car. (Brimley). It is 

 often attracted to light, but occurs mainly beneath cover in 

 moist places ; in Indiana hibernating in colonies beneath logs 

 and other cover, as many as 50 having been so found at one 

 time. In Florida it has been sifted from tufts of grass in sandy 

 roads and from weed debris along the margins of ponds. It has 

 been recorded only from Charlotte Harbor, Ormond and St. 

 Augustine, but doubtless occurs throughout that State. Its 

 known range extends from New England west to Minnesota 

 and south and southwest to Florida and Texas. Uhler (1884, 

 279) says that: "Numerous individuals may sometimes be 

 found among rubbish and weeds in low grounds or on the edges 

 of stubble, during late summer and autumn. When pursued 

 they often set the basal joint of the antennae back and erect 

 the following one as if in the act of listening." 



II. Saica Amyot & Serville, 1843, 371. 



Elongate narrow species, having the eyes large, moderately 

 coarsely granulated; first joint of beak scarcely reaching the 

 eyes, second longer than 1 and 3 united ; scutellum divided, the 

 front portion short, obtuse, rounded behind, the posterior por- 

 tion longer, acute, each armed with a spine ; front femora and 

 tibiae strongly curved, unarmed, both they and the femora with 

 numerous close-set rather long setose hairs on the lower or 

 inner sides; these sometimes adhering to resemble spines and 

 often exuding a viscid substance to aid in the capture of small 

 insects. Seven species are known from tropical America and 

 two from Florida. Of these one is so far known only from 

 five nymphs in the fourth instar and is not therefore treated 

 in this work. 



515 (718). Saica fusco-vittata Barber, 1914, 504. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Dull straw-yellow; upper surface 

 with a vague, median, ill-defined, dusky stripe extending from vertex to 

 tips of elytra; sides of body with similar but narrower stripes, reaching 

 from eyes back to tip of abdomen; corium with some of the larger ner- 

 vures tinged with crimson; legs dull yellow, the femora with a sub- 

 apical, the tibiae with a sub-basal, brownish ring. Joint 1 of antennae 

 slightly longer than head and pronotum united, stouter than the others, 

 2 slightly less than one-third the length of 1, 4 about one-half the length 

 of 3, all finely pubescent. Pronotum glabrous, shining; front lobe nar- 

 rower and slightly longer than hind one, its disk with a wide median 

 groove; hind lobe declivent and armed each side in front of humeral 

 angle with a slender acute spine which is nearly as long as the head. 



