192 
Psyche 
[Dec. 
long streak in each cell dark fuscous, the lighter areas 
subhyaline, the veins dark. 
Length, 4.25 mm. ; width, 2.45 mm. 
Type (male) and allotype (female), Flower’s cove, 
Newfoundland, Aug. 17, Dr. Fernald. Paratypes, 5 speci- 
mens, taken with type. Type, in Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 
28267. 
This species is much shorter and not as dull as S. major 
(Prov.). It is much broader and differently colored than 
S. pallipes (Fabr.) 
Saldula franciscana, sp. n. 
Elongate-ovate, black, shining, with short, rather 
sparse, golden pubescence, each hemelytron with one 
(sometimes two) subapical flavous spot. Head polished, 
with a yellowish spot posteriorly between each ocellus and 
eye; tylus fuscous-black, polished. Bostrum dark fusc- 
ous, reaching to hind coxae. Antennae black, moderately 
stout, shortly pilose, the last two segments with scattered 
long hairs, second segment above and apical portion of 
second brownish, — porportions, I, 22 ; II, 48 ; III, 30 ; IV, 
32. Body beneath black, with pale pubescence. Leg 
shortly pilose, mostly brown, or fuscous; coxae black, 
polished ; femora of fore and middle legs often dark fusc- 
ous, all femora towards apex and beneath at base becom- 
ing testaceous ; tibiae yellowish to brown, darker basally 
and apically; tarsi dark apically; middle and hind legs 
often brown above, beneath on basal half yellowish. 
Pronotum highly polished, behind roundly excavated, 
narrowed anteriorly, the sides practically straight 
(slightly rounded) ; callus raised, prominent, with deep, 
large, discal impression, not extending to lateral margins ; 
lobes divided by a deep, sinuate impression, pitted at bot- 
tom of depression, the hind lobe about half as long as 
frontal ; pronotum two and one-half times as wide as long, 
the callus occupying most of fore lobe. Scutellum moder- 
ately convex, subequal in length and width, polished, the 
transverse impression near the middle. Hemelytra only 
slightly polished, brownish black, not as black or as pol- 
ished as pronotum and scutellum, with a moderately large 
