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Drake — American Saldidce 
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Riverside, California, Aug. 16, 1937, A. J. Basinger, C. J. 
Drake and Floyd Andre. Paratypes, San Francisco, 4 
specimens, Aug. 11, 1937, collected by Drake and Andre ; 
2 specimens, Dolores, Colorado, Aug. 16, 1935, C. J. 
Drake. 
Separated from other western Saldula Van Duzee by its 
smaller size and prominent hemelytron markings. When 
the pubescence is rubbed off, the pronotum is quite shin- 
ing. 
Saldula fernaldi, sp. n. 
Moderately large, broad, black, slightly shining, with 
some brownish markings on hemelytra, the pubescence 
very short, moderately dense, reclining, golden. Head 
broad, black, apex and callosities brownish or flavous; 
ocelli amber. Rostrum dark fuscous, shining, extending 
to hind coxae. Antennae blackish, shortly pilose; largely 
flavous above, the rest dark fuscous and shining; II 
brownish apically ; proportions : I, 20 ; II, 40 ; III, 24 ; IV, 
22. Body beneath black, the pubescence grayish. Legs 
testaceous, the femora with some dark brown spots. 
Pronotum broad, black, slightly shining, broadly 
roundly excavated behind, moderately narrowed anteri- 
orly, in front a little narrower than head and eyes to- 
gether, nearly four times as wide as long, the exterior 
margin slightly rounded; callus moderately raised, not 
extending on lateral margins, deeply impressed on disc, 
a little longer than hind lobe ; transverse impression be- 
hind callus sinuate, moderately deep, pitted at bottom; 
hind lobe one half as long as frontal. Scutellum black, 
slightly shining, as wide as long, indistinctly rugulose, 
the transverse impression near middle. Hemelytra 
broad, brownish black, dull; clavus with small, brownish 
subapical spot ; corium more or less variable in brownish 
markings ; inner corium with two brownish streaks above 
middle, a large elongate, circular mark (center dark) in 
front of middle along lower margin and two or three 
streaks apically brownish, some times with a very long, 
narrow, marginal streak, which arises a little behind the 
base; membrane yellowish brown, basally within and a 
