THE SHORE BUGS. 1007 



punctures, the callus of front lobe prominent, impressed at middle. 

 Length, 4.8 — 5.5 mm. 



Ft. Myers, Everglade and Marco, Fla., April (Davis) . South 

 Amboy, N. J., Aug. 21 (Gerhard). Recorded also by Barber 

 (1914, 499), as Acanthia xanthpchila limbosa Horv., from Biscayne 

 Bay and Lake Okeechobee, Fla. Described from Indiana. 

 Ranges from Quebec and Connecticut southwest to Florida and 

 Texas, but recorded from few stations. Bueno (1923, 411) 

 says : "It seems to be one of the most abundant species of the 

 genus in the east. It is commonly found on the muddy tidal 

 flats and beaches of the Sound hunting around among the 

 sedges." The Salda pellita Uhler, 1877, 433, is a synonym. 



II. Salda Fabricius, 1803, 113. 



Rather robust ovate species having the head slightly pro- 

 longed behind eyes ; tylus long, subvertical ; beak reaching be- 

 tween the hind coxae ; pronotum with convex callosity of front 

 lobe reaching basal third, bounded each side and behind by a 

 deeply impressed line, its central fovea small, hind lobe flat; 

 scutellum with a large median shallow central depression ; 

 corium with costal margin broadly curved ; membrane distinct 

 from the corium and with four cells, the inner one prolonged 

 in front beyond the base of second. One introduced European 

 species occurs in our territory. 



1145 (1320). Salda littoralis (Linnaeus), 1758, 442. 



Rather broadly oval. Dull black, thickly clothed above and beneath 

 with closely appressed yellow hairs, head with a few scattered longer 

 black hairs; middle of tylus and tips of cheeks dull yellow; apical half 

 of clavus with an oblong yellow spot; corium with a row of four yellow- 

 ish spots between the first and second nervules, and one or two smaller 

 ones on inner apical third; membrane pale brownish-yellow, the base and 

 nervures darker, the cells with a transverse row of blackish spots ; legs 

 dull yellow, front femora with outer face blackish, middle and hind ones 

 with one or two rows of brown spots; tarsi with joints 1 and 3 piceous, 

 2 and claws brownish-yellow; under surface shining black, thickly pubes- 

 cent. Antenna? thickly pilose with deflexed blackish hairs; joints 1 and 



2 brown, the base and tips darker, 3 and 4 black; 2 slightly shorter than 



3 and 4 united, these subequal in length. Scutellum and basal lobe of 

 pronotum finely crenate-punctate. Other characters as above given. 

 Length, 5.5 — 7 mm. 



Ranges in this country from Quebec and New York west to 

 Illinois. Occurs also in Utah and on the Pacific slope. Re- 

 corded from Indiana by Van Duzee. 



