1014 FAMILY XXXIII. — SALDID.E. 



Lake, Laporte and Marshall counties, Ind., May 2 — Oct. 6 ; 

 frequent along the margins of Lake Michigan and Lake Maxin- 

 kuckee; also at light. Palmdale, Miami, R. P. Park, Ft. Myers 

 and Dunedin, Fla., December — April. Taken beneath cover 

 and by sweeping low herbage along the margins of ponds. 

 Known heretofore in that State only from Jacksonville and 

 northern Florida. Raleigh, N. Car., late April (Brimley). 



This is our smallest eastern Saldid and varies much in size 

 and somewhat in color, the southern examples averaging much 

 smaller and more often without the pale apical spot of corium 

 than those from Indiana. Its known range extends from 

 Ontario and New England west to the Pacific and southwest to 

 Florida and Texas. Uhler states that it is : "Common in Mary- 

 land, within the limits of the metamorphic belt, upon damp 

 sand formed by the disintegration of the rocks near creeks and 

 brooks in June and July." 



V. Lampracanthia Reuter, 1912, 9, 21. 



Medium sized strongly shining subglabrous black or piceous 

 species having the head distinctly broader across eyes than 

 front margin of pronotum ; beak reaching hind coxae ; joint 2 

 of antennae as long as 3 and 4 united ; pronotum subconical, the 

 front lobe longer than hind one, its side margins strongly con- 

 verging from the base, deflexed in front of middle, hind mar- 

 gin feebly concave ; elytra at most surpassing abdomen by one- 

 fourth the length of membrane, convex, subtectiform and cori- 

 aceous throughout; membrane, when present, with four cells, 

 which increase in length from the outer side. Three species 

 are known, all occurring in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF LAMPRACANTHIA. 



a. Upper surface without erect hairs; hind angles of pronotum not 



acutely produced ; antenna? brownish-yellow or piceous, joints 3 



and 4 not fusiform. 



b. Membrane present, its cells distinct; form broad, the elytra at 



middle more than one-half wider than base of pronotum ; legs in 



part piceous. 1157. coriacea. 



bb. Membrane absent; form narrow; elytra strongly tectiform, at 



middle about one-third wider than base of pronotum; legs yellow. 



1158. ANTHRACINA. 



aa. Upper surface with numerous erect hairs; hind angles of pronotum 

 acutely produced ; joints 1 and 2 of antenna? yellow, 3 and 4 black, 

 fusiform, strongly swollen. 1159. crassicornis. 



