68 THE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Saldula xanthochila Fieb. 1859. 



Fieber, Wien Ent. Monat., Ill, p. 234 (1859). 



"Marginal line black like the pronotum. Outer basal angle of the 

 membrane with short black cross stripes on the angle of the corium. 

 Cells of the membrane with elongate dots or spots. At the end of the " 

 first cell a smaller square blackish spot. Sides of the pronotum straight. 

 Corium somewhat broadened behind, on the median field on the principal 

 vein with four small whitish spots; outwardly two elongate white spots, 

 at the angle of the corium with two larger spots, sometimes confluent. 

 Tip of clavus with roundish spot. Antennae black. First segment yellow, 

 black beneath. Base of rostrum and legs yellow. Femora black beneath 

 with a semicircle on the end. Tibia at base and tip, and first and third 

 tarsal segments, black. Length two lines. Often confused with S. sal- 

 tatoria." 



Distribution: New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and 

 California. 



Saldula xanthochila var. limhosa Horv. 1891. 



Horvath, Revue d' Ent., p. 80, 1891. 



"Size smaller. Lateral margins of pronotum broadly margined with 

 pale. This pale margin about subequal to the fore femora. Spot at 

 base of corium smaller. Length, 3 mm." 



"Differs from the type only by the yellow border of the pronotum 

 being broader. The size much smaller, and the black spot at base of the 

 corium less developed." 



Found in New Jersey and Florida. 



Saldula pallipes Fabricius 1794. 



SaMa pallipes Fab., Syst. Rhyng., 115, No. 12. H. Sehf.. Wanz. Ins., VI, fig. 600. 



"Moderately long-oval, thickly clothed above with appressed golden 

 pubescence, and fringed with almost erect pile. The head, fore part of 

 the pronotum, and basal parts of the hemelytra with erect black hairs. 

 Head from above short and blunt, the front nearly vertical, dull black, 

 moderately flat, minutely granulated, clothed with appressed golden 

 pubescence and some longer black erect pile; inferior margin of clypeus 

 emarginated in the middle, thick, elevated into a slight ridge, yellow, 

 smooth; tylus a little prominent, bald, narrowing inferiorly, and, to- 

 gether with the labrum, reddish-yellow; the latter a little longer, pubes- 

 cent, infuscated at tip ; rostrum reaching to the tip of the middle coxae, 

 piceous ; antennae black, with short hairs ; the first and second joints more 

 or less fulvous, black above and beneath. Ocelli black. Pronotum very 

 transverse, minutely scabrous, the sides arcuated, flattened, the edge a 

 little reflexed; the posterior margin very concave, across the scutellum; 

 the humeral lobes roundly produced ; callosities occupying half the length, 

 moderately prominent, the central fovea deep and transverse, the side 

 impressions obsolete, the bounding furrow deep ; scutellum convex, the 

 central depi-ession deep, sharply defined behind; the base finely scabrous, 

 the apical half rugulose. Hemelytra slightly convex; clavus black, the 

 apex with a large or small wedge-shaped yellow spot; corium black at 

 base, sharply distinguished from the rest of the pale yellowish surface; 

 the basal one-third of the costal margin rounded and a little broadly ex- 

 panded and turned up, the margin black, and with a black spot at the 

 apex; costal area with two long contiguous black spots, nearly forming a 

 black streak, the second interrupted by a white dot; between the first 

 and second nervures basally a black spot, wi1h a broad ring of the 

 ground-color around it; below this ocellus is a Mack spot; at the end of 

 the second nervure is another black spot, sometimes extended to the inner 



