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ae side of the road. There was no water in this but the 
il was i and again ants were running over the surface. 
shed them not thinking at all of my former experience 
¢ little Saldiid, when suddenly I saw an alien among the 
Si bebe captured it It was the same big-eyed little 
pa had taken at Punta Gorda or seemed so to me. But 
1 vainly for other specimens. That summer when 
some Hemiptera to Prof. Herbert Osborn I put into 
the box my two Saldiids. Prof. Osborn at once decided that 
____ they represented an undescribed genus and also two different 
species. These he described—Can. Entom. Vol. xxxii, p. 181. 
The genus he named Saldoida, the two species, respectively, 
___ slossoni and cornuta. I visited Florida every winter after this 
and always searched for my agile, mud-loving treasures but in 
vain. I had, however, discovered in an old box of duplicates, 
_-—s one damaged specimen of Saldoida, about whose capture I 
fe could remember nothing. It was labelled simply “Florida.” 
At this specimen I often looked to refresh my memory as to the 
7. genera appearance of the rare insect and with ardent hopes 
that I might sometime again find similar species. 
_——s dT. was detained in the North during the two winters of 1904- 
| . ‘Tobe 1905-06 and thought that I should never again visit 
: But an attack of grippe last December changed my 
> ideas and I decided to go a little later to the west coast, select- 
ing Belleair on Clearwater Harbor for my headquarters. This 
“is about twenty-five miles west of Tampa and a charming spot. 
____ FT reached there on January 22d, found few signs of spring 
and almost no insects. 
_____ It was an unusually backward, tardy season, the nights cold 
and even frosty until late in February. But just before the 
advent of March the warm weather came very suddenly and 
__ animal and vegetable life became abundant. 
g A few weeks before coming South I had received a letter 
; from Dr. Otto Heidemann telling me that Prof. Reuter of 
Finland was anxious to examine specimens of Saldoida while 
engaged in study of the family. I dared not risk sending my 
precious unique across the seas and told Dr. Heidemann so. 
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