THE SHORE BUGS. 1011 



reaching hind coxae. Joints 1, 3 and 4 of antennae subequal in length, 

 each two-fifths the length of 2. Pronotum with curved median impressed 

 line deep ; side margins equally wide throughout, f ebly reflexed ; hind 

 margin broadly, shallowly concave. Costal margin of elytra broadly 

 cuiwed from base to apex. Length, 3.5 — 4.5 mm. 



Kosciusko Co., Ind., June 3 ; two specimens taken from the 

 shore of Lake Tippecanoe. Ranges from New England west to 

 the Pacific, but nowhere common. Not recorded southward 

 except from Texas. 



1150 (1328). Saldula interstitialis (Say), 1825, 324; II, 248. 



Elongate-oval. Color variable, usually with head, pronotum, scutel- 

 lum and basal fourth of elytra black, feebly shining, minutely scabrous 

 and thickly clothed with a fine yellowish pubescence; remainder of elytra 

 largely clay-yellow, the nervures and numerous vague spots or blotches 

 fuscous; costal area yellow with two or three black spots, or black with 

 yellow spots ; membrane dull yellowish-white with dark nervures and an 

 oblong dark spot in each cell; under surface black, shining, sparsely 

 pubescent, the genital plate and hind margin of prosternum yellowish; 

 joints 3 and 4 of antennae fuscous-brown, the basal ones paler; legs dull 

 yellow marked with vague brownish lines and dots. Beak piceous, reach- 

 ing hind coxae. Joint 1 of antennae less than half the length of eye, 3 and 

 4 subequal, together slightly longer than 2. Pronotum sublunate, the 

 callus of front lobe low, not prominent, impressed at middle; side mar- 

 gins slightly curved, feebly reflexed; humeral angles short, concave, trun- 

 cate behind. Length, 4 — 5 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, May 21 — Oct. 1. Ormond, 

 Canal Point, R. P. Park and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 28— March 28. 

 Recorded by Barber from four other places in southern Florida. 

 Taken in Indiana on wet sandy places along the shores of lakes 

 and streams. Hibernates as imago beneath leaves and other 

 cover near water. Occurs in Florida in all stages during the 

 winter on the muck borders of small ponds and lakes. Ranges 

 from Quebec and New England west to the Pacific, but in the 

 south recorded only from Maryland, Florida and Texas. Bueno 

 (1923, 414) says that : "Almost any collection of Saldidae made 

 in the eastern states on the shores of stream or pond, or 

 among the sedges of the salt marshes, will number hosts of 

 this common little species." The S. pallipcs (Fabr.) of Uhler, 

 Van Duzee and other American authors is now considered only 

 a pale form of 5. interstitialis. 



1151 (1341). Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus), 1758, 448. 



Oblong-oval. Dull black with pale markings as in key; clavus with 

 an oval spot near apex ; membrane pale with an elongate dark spot in 



