OF THE COLEOPTERA LONGKORNIA OF THE UNITED STATES. Gl 



STR A \ ( I \ LI A, Sen: Mula. 250. 



229. S. luteicoknh. P., u. 361. Oliv., iv. pi. 3, fig. 4. Mcls. Cat., No. 822. 



Fellow, pronotum with two and elytra wilh three black bands; tip of the posterior femora black; venter 

 rufous. 5 — 0'". Inhabits Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 



230. S. sexnotata. 



Dull rufous; palpi, antennae, feet, pectus, and three clytral spots, black: elytra and femora yellow. 

 4j'" long; lj wide. S. 6-notata, Dcjiaii. 



231. S. obsoleta. 



Like luteicornis, but bavin;: the basal elytra] macula replaced by about three minute black spots; antenna 1 

 bl ick; beneath black, yellow sericeous, abdomen rufous. 7'" long; lj wide. Pennsylvania. 



Head black: trophi, (except the maxilla 1 and labial palpi,) anterior margin of the labium and clypeus, and a 



narrow, post-orbital band, yellow: labium and clypeus punctured ; an impressed frontal line, with an obsolete, 



iorly; front with yellow hairs; occiput wilh a yellow spot ; prothorax yellow above, wilh a 



black lateral band, abbreviated posteriorly; scutel black, with yellow hair: elytra minutely punctured, yellow, 



me sutural margin black, and two marginal macula 1 , one in the middle-, and the other between it and the 



tip, black : feet yellow, tarsi, tip of the tibia, and of the posterior femora, black. 



Var. X.jlaviceps. Head above, and upon the sides, yellow. 5'". 



232. S. familica, .V u-)n. 



Lil "■• abdomen black, minute, clytral spots obsolete or wanting; posterior tibi;e piceous. 7'" long. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania — Virginia. S. angustata, Dej. — nigricornis, Mils. MS. 



Distinguished from obsoleta, in addition to the characters given above, by narrower 

 elytra, ;> r medial, elytra! spot, and the elongate, narrow form of the posterior one. 



Vvrt. tanftumta. Pronotum almost entirely black, from the confluence of the bands. 

 V lb. solitaria. Posterior clytral spot alone present. Alabama. 



233. S. 31 BHAMATA, Randall. 



Black; femora, pri I, and elytra yellow, these separately encircled with black, and having a transverse 



black band; ventral segments margined with obscure rufous. 

 6'" long; 1 j wide. S. lecontei, Dejean. L. interrupta, Newman. 

 Elytra with the black of the margin interrupted at the Bhouider; apex deeply, conjointly emarginate ; apical 



fourth black; antenna:, with the base of the six terminal articulations, yellow. 



233 . S. bicolor, Swederus. Act. Holm. iii. l!)7, anno I?s7. Say, Jour. Ac. N. Sc, iii.418. 

 Say thought bis species distinct from that of Swederus, because this "is said to be 

 k on the upper part of the tail;" but it is possible thai the black wings, appearing 

 ath ihe divarication of the elytra, were taken for the abdomen. 



S. emaci vta, Vewman. 



nder, black, olivai beneath, elytra pale-yellowish-browm 6 — 0'" Ion". Pennsylvania. 



1 Vfels. Cat., 



Head bining black, minutely punctured, an indistinct, impressed line upon the front and vertex; labrum 



with I! u Iim r-i : prothorax ti ly punctured, sparsely clothed with shining, yellow hair, dorsal line 



indi>> tel black, wilh shining, yellow hair: elytra punctured tbrou ;l t, ami covered with short, spat 



rate hair : yellowish-brown, with a very narrow sutural and external margin of black ; divaricate, obliquely 

 cmar the inner side at tip ■ crnally : wings translucent, gray : feel and abdomen 



black. 



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