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species can be easily distinguished by the reduced frontal spine and 

 by the pale ornamental spots on the prothorax. 



Family SALDID^. 

 15. Salda rubromaculata sp. no v. 



A male. — Body blackish, pubescent, with fuscous and yellow 

 markings. Head stout, black between the eyes, in front yellow; two 

 short, black lines running sideways to the cheeks, which are yellow ; 

 tylus testaceous, polished, prominent, and much curved downwards ; 

 underside of head yellowish, on the middle of the throat a black mark; 

 the occiput carries behind the ocelli two orange-yellow, round dots, 

 which are quite conspicuous. Antenuie yellowish, the ultimate joints 

 more fuscous. Rostrum yellow, at tip blackish, reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae. Pronotum twice as wide as long, slightly narrowing 

 anteriorly to nearly the same width as the head; the callosities, form- 

 ing the anterior lobe, convex, not reaching the sides, rounded by an 

 impressed, transverse line, which is deeper in the middle; the anterior 

 margin straight, narrow, yellow, behind it a round, sunken line; pos- 

 terior margin very concave; the lateral margins straight, narrow, 

 flattened, somewhat reflexed, anteriorly rounded; the humeral angles 

 rectangular, with an oblong tubercle near the sides ; color of the 

 thorax yellow, except the anterior lobe, which is black, a little shining, 

 but shows on front of the sides a small forked yellow streak. Scu- 

 tellum large, twice the length of the thorax, hollowed out a little, be- 

 fore the middle, margins and apex yellow. Hemelytra flat, sericeous ; 

 clavus yellow with a black line in the middle, and a brown dot near 

 the apical part; corium yellow, the inner side towards apex dark 

 fuscous, maculated with reddish-brown ; near costal margin a darker 

 streak with a black spot behind the middle, also one at apex of corium 

 and base of membrane; the discal and apical areoles more pale 

 yellow; sutures and nervures blackish; costal margins narrow and 

 entirely yellow. Membrane pale, with five long areoles ; veins are 

 brownish. Legs yellow, the femora above a little infuscated, coxae 

 fuscous. Sternum black, with broad yellowish-white margins. Ab- 

 domen dark brown, densely covered with fine hairs ; the segments 

 edged with yellow, the genital segment yellowish at apex. 



Length, 3.5 mm. ; width, 1.5 mm. Type — No. 4930,1!. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



One specimen from Albemarle Island, January 23, 1899. This new 

 species belongs to the group, having membrane consisting of five cells. 

 Judging from the descriptions of 6". ventra/is Stal', and S. argentina 



