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with the lateral edge sharp, and with a median ridge. Rostrum reach- 
ing almost to the middle of the posterior coxz (in one specimen, not ex- 
tending beyond the intermediate coxz), piceous-black, paler or yellowish 
at tip. Antenne moderately long and slender, thickly clothed with fine, 
projecting, black hairs, a few of which are stouter ; basal joint yellowish- 
brown above, dark at base, and beneath, with "the basal two-thirds, 
blackish; second joint slender, dull yellowish, piceous at base and tip, a 
little shorter than the third and fourth united; third and fourth a little 
stouter, subfusiform, dusky black, subequal in jength. Pronotum sub- 
trapezoidal, the posterior lobe transversely flat, the anterior lobe convex, 
reaching two-thirds of the length, smooth, bounded by a deeply impressed 
line each side and behind, its central fovea small; sides flattened, the. 
recurved edge bending abruptly downward before reaching the collum; 
posterior third of disk finely crenate-punctate. Scutellum finely crenate- 
punctate, finely rugulose behind, the depression large, somewhat incurved 
and well defined. Legs dull yellow; the femora with short, yellow hairs, 
the anterior ones blackish on the outside, and the middle and posterior 
ones with two rows of brown dots on each of the outer and inner sur- 
faces; tibie with short brown hairs and remote stouter black hairs; first 
and last joints of the tarsi blackish, the second joint and nails dull 
yellow. The tarsi are often soiled yellow, with blackish hairs, and with 
only traces of dusky on the ends of the first and last joints. Venter 
shining black, very minutely rugulose, clothed with fine sericeous, 
yellowish, prostrate pubescence, the posterior margins of the segments 
often pale piceous, and apex of the terminal segment yellow. 
“Hemeltyra minutely scabrous, golden sericeous, appressed pubescent; 
generally with an oblong yellow spot near the end of the clavus; corium 
marked on the disk with a longitudinal series of four long, yellow spots 
between the first and second nervules, and near the tip with one or two 
smaller spots placed more inwardly; costal margin broadly arcuated, 
turned up, the submargin depressed, broader at base; membrane pale 
brownish or dirtv yellow, sometimes short, and almost confined to the 
inner length of the corium, the cuneus black and coriaceous, inclosing 
the outer side of the membrane; the areoles with a series of black spots 
across the middle, more or less blackish at base and tip, and the nervules 
deep black. 
“Length to tip of venter, 5-6 mm.; to end of membrane, 514-7 mm. 
Width of base of pronotum, 2 -2% mm. 
“Common in various eee of Europe, as well in the North as in the 
South. In some parts of England, it inhabits the seashore. Specimens. 
from the United States have thus far been collected only in Illinois and 
Utah.”—Uhler. 
Van Duzee adds: een New York, Indiana and California. 
A salda coriacea Uhler 1872. ae 
Salda coriacea Uhler, Fifth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geog. Surv. for 1871, 1872, p. 421, No. 2. 
“Form similar to that of Salda littoralis Linnzeus, but much nar- 
rower, very elongate-ovate, black, highly polished, minutely shagreened. 
Head oblique anteriorly, distinctly shagreened, sericeous pubescent, the 
base moderately wide, slightly convex, forming a distinct neck; ocelli 
honey yellow, lacking the raised chevron in front of them, and having 
traces only of the oblique grooves and central line; front moderately fiat, 
the tylus prominently raised, polished, bald, cylindrical; the labrum much 
broader, acutely angular at tip, a little longer than the tylus, and of the 
same testaceous color, or both black. Eyes large, prominent, brown, 
placed very obliquely. Rostrum reaching to the posterior coxe, piceous, 
paler at base and tip. Antenne black, remotely bristly, the first two 
joints often paler above; the basal joint stout, increasing in thickness 
beyond the base; the second joint more than twice as long as the first, a 
very little enlarged at tip; the third and fourth longer than the basal, 
