THE SHORE BUGS. 1017 



fourths the length of 2. One species is known in this country. 

 Bueno (loc. cit.) founded for it the subgenus Chartolampra. 



1160 ( — ). Chartoscirta (Chartolampra) cursitans Bueno, 1923a, 



151. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black; elytra piceous, opaque, with a 

 few scattered yellowish spots; membrane yellowish with darker cloud- 

 ings; legs brownish, paler at base. Antenna? reaching beyond apex of 

 scutellum, joints 3 and 4 of equal thickness; 1 shortest and stoutest; 2 

 four and one-half times as long as 1; 3 and 4 subequal, united slightly 

 longer than 2. Pronotum behind the callus and apical portion of scutel- 

 lum irregularly transversely rugose. Elytra clothed with short gray 

 sericeous hairs. Last ventral of female as long at middle as the three 

 preceding united. Length, male, 4.1; female, 4.6 mm. 



Described from Lake Tear, Mt. Marcy, Essex Co., N. Y. 

 Known only from there. 



VII. Saldoida Osborn, 1901, 181. 



Small, oblong-oval, subglabrous species, the differential char- 

 acters as in generic key and having the antennae short, stout, 

 joint 3 equal to or longer than and three times as thick as 2, 4 

 shorter than and about one-half as thick as 3 ; pronotum sub- 

 campanulate, with front lobe narrow, subcylindrical, armed 

 with two conical tubercles, hind lobe short, broadly and shal- 

 lowly concave behind ; scutellum large, flat, its apex acute ; 

 elytra entire, conjointly tectiform, the corium without veins ; 

 membrane large, distinct, surpassing abdomen by two-thirds 

 its length. Two species are known, both only from Florida. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF SALDOIDA. 



a. Hind angles of pronotum obtuse; color pale brown marked with red- 

 dish-yellow and black. 1161. SLOSSONI. 

 off. Hind angles of pronotum prolonged, subacute; color black, the elytra 

 in great part reddish-brown. 1162. cornuta. 



1161 (1346). Saldoida slossoni Osborn, 1901, 181. 



Head with vertex black, margins next to eyes reddish-brown, front 

 and beak testaceous; pronotum with tubercles reddish-brown, front mar- 

 gin and band behind tubeixles black, posterior lobe brownish-yellow; 

 scutellum black, apex piceous-brown ; elytra pale brown, claval suture 

 and apical margin of corium black; corium with two triangular whitish 

 spots, the bases of which merge into the hyaline costal margin ; mem- 

 brane fuscous at base, hyaline toward apex; legs yellowish-brown, apical 

 third of femora, base and apex of tibia? and third tarsal, fuscous. Other 

 characters as under genus heading. Length, 3 mm. 



Known only from Punta Gorda and Bellaire, Fla. 



