190 
Psyche 
[Dec. 
Saldula bassingeri, sp. n. 
Small, obovate, clothed with short golden pubescence, 
blackish, scarcely shining, the hemelytra conspicuously 
marked with large whitish spots or areas. Tylus and 
juga yellowish white, ocelli amber. Rostrum dark rufo- 
fuscous, reaching hind coxae. Antennae shortly hairy, 
brownish black, the basal segment (save large elliptical 
fuscous spot beneath) and apical portion of second seg- 
ment yellowish white ; proportions : I, 14 ; II, 26 ; III, 20 ; 
IV, 18. Legs shortly hairy, testaceous ; coxae black- 
fuscous, shining; femora beneath (save apices) black- 
fuscous, somewhat shining, above usually with scattered 
fuscous spots; tibiae above dark; tarsi darker at tips. 
Body beneath blackish, the pubescence pale. 
Pronotum black, moderately shining, densely clothed 
with golden, decumbent pubescence, a little narrower in 
front than eyes, two and a half times as wide as long, 
deeply excavated behind, the lateral margins moderately 
rounded; callus only moderately convex, not reaching 
lateral margins, with large discal impression ; lobes sepa- 
rated by transverse, sinuate impression, pitted at bottom 
of depression, the front lobe twice as long as posterior. 
Scutellum moderately convex, moderately shining, sub- 
equal in length and width, the pubescence as on pronotum. 
Hemelytra rather densely clothed with reclining pubes- 
cence, with large yellowish or flavous markings on corium, 
the pubescence reclining; membrane pale, semitrans- 
parent, with four cells, the base and an elongate spot in 
each cell brown, the veins darker brown ; clavus blackish, 
with subapical yellowish spot ; inner clavus largely black- 
ish, with three spots along lower edge (one subbasal, one 
near middle and other apical) yellowish white or yellow- 
ish ; outer corium largely yellowish or yellowish white, the 
base, a small spot near middle, a quadrate spot beyond 
middle and an apical spot blackish ; the amount of yellow- 
ish white or size or dark spots varies somewhat in differ- 
ent specimens. 
Length, 2.90-3.20 mm. ; width 1.30-1.50 mm. 
Type (male), allotype (female) and 50 paratypes, 
