No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: SALDIDAE. 



4 II 



This species is not recorded from the State. As it has been 

 taken at Sea Cliff, Long Island, across the Sound, and as the 

 species is perhaps the most widespread of the genus, there seems 

 to be no real reason why a little careful collecting on sandy beaches 

 should not bring it to light. 



Fig. 46. Pentacora ligata Say, — dorsal view, greatly enlarged. Drawing 

 by Dr. Philip Garman. 



P. ligata (Say). (Fig. 46.) 



Het. New Harm., 34, 1832. 



This seems to be a more common species and of wider range of 

 habitat than the preceding. Perhaps a quotation from Uhler's 

 writings will help to visualize the species. He terms it "a sprightly 

 species, which inhabits dark rocks in the beds of running streams 

 and brooks in the metamorphic region of Maryland, and of East- 

 ern Massachusetts .... from May 'till October." So far, it 

 does not appear to have been recorded from Connecticut. 



P.hirta (Say). 



Het. New Harm., 34, 1832. 



Pentacora hirta seems to be one of the most abundant species of 

 the genus in the East. It is commonly to be found on the muddy 

 tidal flats and beaches of the Sound, hunting around among the 

 sedges in company with Saldula interstitialis and Pentacora 

 sphacelata. 



New Haven, 28 June, 1916 (W. E. B.) ; Madison, 12 July, 1916, Guilford, 

 26 June, 1918 (B. H. W.). 



P. pellita (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii; 433 (Salda), 1877. 



