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of the clavus; membrane fuscous, a spot at tbe inner angle, tbe inner 

 margin, the posterior submargin, and an apical spot, four spots on tbe 

 bases of tbe areoles, and four near tbeir tips pale testaceous. Venter 

 black, terminated witb white, and closely invested with prostrate whitisb 

 pubescence. 



Length to tip of hemelytra 3.J-4| millimeters. Width of base of pro- 

 notum 1^-2 millimeters. Widtb across hemelytra 2-2^ millimeters. 



This neat and unusual form of Salda has a very wide range of distri- 

 bution. It occurs in Eastern Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, ¥ew York, 

 Illinois, and Texas, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology has speci- 

 mens from Calaveras and San Diego, Cal. 



22. S. Jmmilis. 



Acanthia limnilis Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 35, No. 4. 



Elliptical, black, velvety, above closely invested with minute yellow 

 prostrate pubescence ; the eyes very large, prominent, round, brown, 

 placed obliquely. Head at base, with a narrow neck, conforming to the 

 width of tbe front of pronotum, black, dull, minutely scabrous; the front 

 very narrow between the eyes, from above blunt, short, a little flat- 

 tened, with two indented points each side and one in the middle ; tylus 

 slightly prominent, and, together with the labrum, pale ocherons or yel- 

 low, the ends of lower cheeks also ocherous. Rostrum reaching upon 

 the posterior coxas, pale piceous, Antennte testaceous, slender, and 

 moderately long; the apex of the second joint and all of tbe third and 

 fourth joints blackish ; the second joint about twice as long as the basal 

 one and much more slender; the third and fourth slender, subequal-; 

 all but the basal one with erect hairs. Pronotum trapezoidal, trans- 

 verse, very narrow in front, the sides oblique, a little prominent at tbe 

 shoulders, the lateral margins very slenderly reflexed, decurved, and 

 lost before reaching the anterior margin ; the surface very minutely sca- 

 brous ; anterior lobe moderately elevated, transversely indented on the 

 middle, the impressed line distinct but not very deep ; posterior division 

 a little shorter, moderately Hatteued ; posterior margin a very little sin- 

 uated, the humeral angles oblique, short, flat, tbe outer angles subacute, 

 with an oblong tubercle placed next the outside. Scutellum long, mod- 

 erately depressed in the middle and more deeply each side, coarsely 

 scabrous at base, finely rugulose on the apical division. Pectus and ster- 

 num jet black, highly polished, closely covered with appressed, fine, 

 white pubescence. Legs pale testaceous ; the coxfe black, witb white 

 tips ; femora broadly banded near the tip with fulvous ; tibiiie piceous at 

 tip, and with pale piceous spines ; apex of the last tarsal joint black 

 the nails pale piceous. Hemelytra velvety- black, minutely, densely 

 clothed with black and golden pubescence, minutely punctate; the cos- 

 tal margin broadly arcuated, with the edge narrowly reflexed ; the cos- 

 tal area broad, pale yellow or white, with a small, black, longish patch at 

 base, another oblong, large spot behind the middle, against the inner 



