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outer corner. Scutellum feebly convex, closely minutely scabrous, lunately 
impressed, the apical division a little ‘flattened, obsoletely rugulose, with 
the edge yellowish. Pectoral pieces polished, black, clothed with pros- 
trate whitish pubescence, the prosternum slenderly margined with white. 
Legs dull yellow, generally with a black line on the under side of the 
femora and tibie; the femora often with piceous dots on the front and 
back faces; tibize tipped with piceous, with piceous spines, and sometimes 
with piceous spots or faint bands at the base of the spines; tarsal joints 
tipped with piceous and the basal joint entirely piceous, the nails pale 
_- piceous. Hemelytra black, almost flat, minutely scabrous, with close, ap- 
pressed, golden pubescence, and with longer, remote, black hairs exteriorly 
and basally; the costal margin moderately arcuated, With the edge 
abruptly, narrowly recurved, and black or rarely piceous; corium with 
four or five whitsh oblong spots, of which there is a double one on the 
costal area behind the middle and a similar one near the tip, a large cen- 
tral one on the discoidal areole and a smallerone farther back; and at 
the tip of this areole, on the suture, is a larger triangular spot, or very 
small white spot behind a velvety-black one near the tip of the clavus; 
membrane dull whitish, dusky at base and tip, with black nervules, and 
across the middle a series of oblong, blackish spots. Venter black or 
tinged with piceous (or sometimes pale brownish); the apical segment 
entirely, or only a broad margin, whitish. 
“Length to tip of venter, 3-4 mm.; to tip of membrane, 4-5 mm. Width 
of base of pronotum, 1%-24%4 mm. 
“Inhabits Missouri, Mr. Say. Specimens in my own collection were 
taken at Saint Joseph, Mo., by Mr. E. P. Austin; by myself at Andover, 
Mass.; and near Baltimore, on the dark sand of 2 loamy spot near a brook, 
in May and June; also in Dakota, Nebraska, and Illincis. Some varia- 
tion occurs in this form, such as the greater expanse of the white spot 
upon the apex of the corium, and of the pale colors of the prosternum and 
legs.”—Uhler. 
Van Duzee adds: Quebec, Ontario, Maine, New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, 
Idaho, and California 
Saldula separata Uhler 1878. 
Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX, p. 432, 1878. 
“Black, minutely, sparingly pubescent above; general form of S. inter- 
stitialis Say. Head large, eyes brown, large and very prominent; face 
minutely, densely punctured, clothed with erect hairs; cranium wider than 
in the preceding species, having a small yellow spot each side against the 
eyes, on a line with the amber-yellow ocelli; lower margin of the clypeus 
recurved, the tylus and labrum bright yellow, the rostrum, excepting 
its immediate base, piceous, extending a little beyond the base of the 
posterior coxe. Antenne black, the basal joint yellow, black underneath 
excepting the base and tip; the second joint almost twice as long as the 
basal, third longer than the basal and shorter than the fourth. The base 
of head longer than in the preceding species. Pronotum obsoletely 
punctured, hardly polished, clothed with erect pubescence; the sides ob- 
lique, slightly curved, the callosities more polished, connate, forming a 
single transverse elevation, with a rounded pit in the middle; behind it is 
an impressed, punctured line. Pectus polished black, obsoletely wrinkled, 
\.. sparingly pubescent. Legs testaceous; the coxe more or less infuscated; 
_ anterior femora black on the middle underneath, the intermediate and 
{posterior pairs with a black spot beneath near the tip, and clothed with 
4 thick, whitish pubescence; tip of tibia and also of tarsi blackish. Hemely - 
tra dull black, obsoletely rugulose, sparingly clothed_ 
pe cence. widest just behind the middle; the corium with a yellow dot on fie 
exterior margin near the tip, usually also with three or four more minute 
~n the middle suture and one at tip of clavus. Membrane sometimes 
