No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: SALDIDAE. 4*3 



2. Sides of pronotum curved , 3 



Sides of pronotum straight • 8 



3. Corial margin white or yellowish marked or spotted 4 



Corial margin concolorous black; large nearly unspotted dark 



species major 



4. With long erect hairs on upper part of body 5 



Without such hairs 6 



5. Large shining species, corial margin with two long flavous spots, 



sometimes confluent ; form elongate confluenta 



Small dull species, covered with a golden pubescence ; entire corial 

 margin except base narrowly dull flavous; one white spot of 

 variable size at apex of corium and five or six bluish spots on the 

 corium ; form orbiculate orbiculata 



6. Corial margin marked with white or flavous 7 



Corial margin unspotted or concolorous interstitialis 



7. One long white or flavous mark at the middle of the corial margin 



and a small flavous spot before the apex. (Corial spots small, 



obscure and not joined to the marginal ones.) saltatoria 



Corium with large whitish spots, broadly joined to the marginal 

 ones (Hemelytra mostly pale with ill-defined nebulous brown- 

 ish spots ; tibiae pale) pallipes 



8. Upper part of body without long erect hairs, corium more or less 



pale-spotted, with large pale areas at margin 9 



Upper part of body with long erect hairs ; corium all black 

 except a small marginal white spot close to the apex separata 



9. Margin of hemelytra entirely flavous, except the extreme base, 



forming a regular flavous band margined at each side by a brown- 

 ish longitudinal nervure opacula 



Margin of hemelytra with two long flavous spots and one minute 

 pure white spot apically reperta 



S. major (Provancher). 



Nat. Can., 107, 1872. 



Salda deplanata Uhler, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 442, 1877. 

 Salda lugubris Uhler (not Say), ibid., i, 333, 1876. 



Saldula major has figured in all collections up to a very recent 

 period as deplanata Uhler. It is a large black dull form frequently 

 found on the shores of ponds or other places where there is black 

 mud. It is not very abundant but being rather slow to move, it is 

 not difficult to catch with the fingers. Widely as it is spread, it 

 has not been recorded from Connecticut, although it is found in 

 the neighboring states. The nymphs are shining black and quite 

 as large as the adult smaller members of the genus. 

 S. confluenta (Say). 



Het. New Harm., 35, 1832. 



This is a shining species in bright black and white pattern found 

 about ponds. While not rare, it is not often seen in collections. 



Cornwall, 5 July, 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; So. Meriden, 11 July, 1914 (H. L. J.). 

 S. orbiculata (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 450, 1877. 



This pretty little species is not yet recognized from Connecticut. 

 S. interstitialis (Say). 



Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 324, 1825. 



