THE SHORE BUGS. 1009 



hh. Costal area wholly dark, much widened and strongly reflexed; 

 middle and hind femora each with two rows of brown dots. 



1155. LITTORALIS. 



1146 (1331). Saldula xanthochila (Fieber), 1859, 234. 



Oblong-oval. Head, pronotum and scutellum black, tylus and lateral 

 edges of pronotum yellowish; clavus black with a small oval spot near 

 apex; corium in great part sordid white, its veins brown, costal area 

 blackish, a pale spot near middle; membrane dull white, veins brown, 

 three of the cells with median fuscous spots, a black spot opposite apex 

 of inner cell; femora dull yellow, black beneath; tibiae at base and tip, 

 and first and third tarsals dark brown. Antenna? black, joint 1 in part 

 yellow, as long as width of vertex; 2 two and a third times as long as 1; 



3 and 4 subequal, united slightly shorter than 2. Upper surface clothed 

 with very fine inclined blackish hairs. Length, 3.8 — 4 mm. 



South France (British Mus. Coll.). A palaearctic European 

 species known in this country from New England, New York, 

 New Jersey, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. Not re- 

 corded from the states between New York and Colorado. A 

 form from Connecticut and New Jersey, with sides of prono- 

 tum more broadly pale and length only 3 mm., is var. limbosa 

 Horv. (1891, 80). 



1147 (1323). Saldula major (Provancher), 1872, 107. 



Elongate-oval. Above a nearly uniform dull black, densely minutely 

 shagreened, thickly clothed with a very fine yellowish pubescence; corium 

 usually with six or eight small oblong whitish spots, two or three being 

 near apex of costal area, the others on apical half of discoidal area; 

 membrane dusky-white, clouded with fuscous at base and apex and with 

 a small fuscous spot near middle of each cell ; under surface black, more 

 shining, less pubescent than above; femora and joints 3 and 4 of anten- 

 nae dark brown; coxae, tibiae, tarsi and basal joints of antennae dull brown- 

 ish-yellow. Joint 1 of antennae stout, shorter than eye, 2 slender, 3 and 



4 stouter, subequal, united slightly longer than 2. Beak reaching or 

 slightly passing hind coxae. Pronotum with sides feebly curved, their 

 margins rather broadly flattened, slightly reflexed; hind margin broadly 

 concave; humeral angles broad, flattened, truncate behind. Scutellum 

 large, shallowly concave at middle. Basal two-thirds of costal margin of 

 elytra strongly reflexed. Length, 6.5 — 8 mm. 



Frequent about the lakes of northern Indiana, May — Sep- 

 tember ; not taken south of Vigo County, where it was formerly 

 common about the muddy margins of large ponds in the Wa- 

 bash River bottoms (W. S. B.). Raleigh, N. Car., May 9 (Brim- 

 ley). Rabun Co., Ga., July {Dans). Ranges from Quebec and 

 New England west to British Columbia and Kansas, and south 

 to Georgia. Recorded also from Texas and New Mexico. Easily 



