412 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Van Duzee lists this species under his genus Saldula although it 

 has according to the description, five areoles in the membrane. 

 Few specimens so determined have come into our hands, and none 

 of them from Connecticut. It may prove to be a form of hirta. 

 P. sphacelata (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 434, 1877. 



This species likewise will be found under Saldula. It may not 

 be out of place to here remark in passing that Renter's work cited 

 previously has left many of our American species in the air, so that 

 short of a thoroughgoing revision of the family, it is impossible 

 to place them accurately. This, however, is done so far as possible 

 in this writing. 



P. sphacelata is another very common form on sea beaches from 

 Massachusetts to Florida. 



Madison, 12 July, 19 16 (B. H. W.). 



Salda Fabricius. 

 Sciodopterus Amyot and Serville. 



The only American representative of this genus is 

 S. littoralis Linnaeus. 



Syst. Nat, Edn. 10, 442, 1758. 



The complete synonymy is largely of historic interest. It may 

 be found in Van Duzee's Catalogue in extenso. This is the one 

 we can be certain of ; the other two species mentioned in Van 

 Duzee will be found in Lampracanthia, to which, in fact, Renter 

 refers anthracina Uhler. 6'. littoralis is widespread throughout 

 Europe, and has been recorded from various parts of the United 

 States. The given distribution is such that it should in time be 

 recorded from Connecticut. 



Saldula Van Duzee. 



{Acanthia Fabricius.) 



The generic synonymy is omitted here, and the Vanduzeean 

 name adopted for the sake of conformity. There are in the 

 Eastern United States ten species of the genus, of which four are 

 Palaearctic also; in the whole country we have seventeen, the 

 others being Western. By far the most common of these are 

 S. pallipes Fabricius, and vS. inter stitialis Say, followed by the black 

 S. major Provancher. Our Eastern species, and therefore, the 

 Connecticut forms, will be easily separated by the following table. 



Key to Species. 



I. Margin of pronotum concolorous black, body with or without erect 



hairs 2 



Margin of pronotum yellowish, body not covered with erect hairs 



xanthochila 



