1016 FAMILY XXXIII. — SALDID^E. 



punctate; membrane absent, but elytra surpassing abdomen as much as 

 in coriacea. Length, 5.5 — 7 mm. 



Spring Hill, Ala., April 29 {Gerhard). Described from Penn- 

 sylvania. Recorded elsewhere only from New Hampshire, New 

 York and Michigan. Bueno (1923a, 151) regards it as the 

 brachypterous form of coriacea, but the length of the elytra 

 and the yellow legs preclude this supposition. 



1159 (1345). Lampracanthia crassicornis (Uhler) , 1877, 438. 



Narrowly oval, convex. Black with a faint brassy tinge, strongly 

 shining; color of antennae as in key; legs pale brownish-yellow, the tips 

 of tibia? and tarsi piceous. Beak pale piceous, reaching hind coxae. An- 

 tenna? short, relatively stout, bristly hairy; joint 1 one-third the length 

 of 2, the latter slender, 3 and 4 much stouter, fusiform, subequal. Prono- 

 tum subcampanulate, its hind lobe very short with angles suberect, acute, 

 somewhat divergent; callus of front lobe large, strongly convex, reach- 

 ing the side margins, limited before and behind by a deeply impressed 

 punctate line. Elytra conjointly elongate-oval, not wider at base than 

 pronotum, disk strongly convex, minutely irregularly punctate, each 

 puncture with a long, erect black hair; membrane absent; corium and 

 clavus scarcely differentiated ; tips separately narrowly rounded, dis- 

 tinctly surpassing abdomen. Genital plate of male as in coriacea; sixth 

 ventral of female with apex truncate. Length, 4 — 4.7 mm. 



Kosciusko Co., Ind., June 7 — 9 ; four specimens taken from 

 a mass of fine shells thrown up by the waves on the shore of 

 Lake Tippecanoe. Described from the Saskatchewan River; 

 recorded elsewhere only from New Hampshire and New York. 

 This and coriacea are but two of many boreal forms of Heter- 

 optera and Coleoptera of the Hudsonian and Transition Life 

 Zones which occur among the bogs and lakes of the northern 

 third of Indiana. 



VI. Chartoscirta Reuter, 1895a, 5, 54. 



Small oval, opaque, pubescent species having the head one- 

 half wider than long, the vertex with a deep sulcus ; beak sur- 

 passing middle coxae; pronotum twice as wide at base as long 

 at middle, hind margin deeply concave, callus extending behind 

 middle of disk, and with a deep median fovea ; scutellum as 

 broad as long; elytra conjointly oval, broadened behind, sur- 

 passing abdomen, veins obsolete except claval suture and main 

 costal vein ; membrane with four cells, the two middle ones nar- 

 row, fourth widest ; legs long and slender, front and middle 

 tarsi with joints 2 and 3 subequal, hind tarsi with joint 3 three- 



