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



This is an extremely melanic and variable form, which may be 

 distinguished without difficulty by the key. It may turn out to be 

 nothing but a dark variety of ^. pallipes Fabricius. It is by far 

 the commonest species in the Eastern States, together with pallipes, 

 with which it is found. It ranges from Maine to Florida and from 

 Massachusetts to California. The one Connecticut record, which 

 is new, are two specimens taken by Mr. H. L. Viereck, and 

 determined by Mr. Van Duzee as pallipes Fabricius. 



Stratford, i6 Aug., 1904 (H. L. V.). 

 S. separata (Uhler). 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist.,, xix, 432, 1878. 



So far this species has been recorded only from Massachusetts, 

 New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. 

 S. reperta (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 447, 1877. 



vSays Uhler of this species, "This is a robust little species, very 

 closely related to »S'. inter stitialis Say, . . . But the different 

 shape of the pronotum, with the other details, will at present serve 

 to separate it." 



Hamden, 28 Apr., 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Milford, 2 May, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; 

 New Haven, 26 March, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; East Haven, 10 May, 1921 

 (M. P. Z.). 



S. xanthochila (Fieber). 



Wien. Ent Monat., iii, 234, 1859. 



Xanthochila is a Palaearctic species, which with us ranges to 

 Colorado and California. 



Branford, 11 Aug., 1904 (H. L. V.). 

 S. pallipes (Fabricius). 



Ent. Syst, iv, 71, 1794. 



This is a common and highly variable species, and readers are 

 referred to Van Duzee's Catalogue for the full synonymy. 



Not alone is it abundant and widespread, ranging as it does all 

 over Europe, and so far as known, the greater part of the United 

 States, but also it is highly variable in markings. Our Eastern 

 specimens, so far as known to me, belong to the variety dimidiata 

 Curtis, in which the hemelytra are nearly all white, save for a 

 broad black band at the base. And strange to say, common as it 

 is, it has been recorded from only nine States. The Connecticut 

 record given here makes this the tenth State. 



Almost any collection of Saldidae made on the shores of stream 

 or pond, or among the sedges of the salt marshes, will number 

 hosts of this common little species. Nothing is known of its life 

 history, as is true of the other species of the genus. 



East Hartford, 18 Aug., 1906 (B. H. W.). 

 S. opacula (Zetterstedt). 



Ins. Lapp., col. 268, 1840. 



