146 LENG AND HAMILTON. 



lineate; anteunaj more slender and shorter, joints proportioned as in suffusa. 

 flying hairs very sparse ; thorax shorter in proportion to the width than in the 

 other species, piceous, pubescence sparse, not lineate ; scutellum minute, trian- 

 gular, white; elytra dilated and punctured as in suffusa, suture obscure white- 

 the adjacent two rows of punctures on each side brown from denudation, third 

 row with short white lines, many scattering spots brown from denudation, apices 

 conjointly emarginate. 



Described from four examples taken at Punta Gorda on the Gulf 

 coast of southern Florida by Messrs. Schwarz and Hubbard. Three 

 of the types are now in Mr. Schwarz's collection and one in my 

 own.l " Ham." 



[S. texana Casey, 1891, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vi, 51. 



Length 10 mm. ^= .40 inch. Habitat.^Tesa,s. 



Mr. Casey describes this species as having the elytra inflated to 

 two-thirds wider behind the middle and then narrowed to apex, 

 which is deeply emarginate, the punctuation close and almost con- 

 fused, maculate with large, irregular denuded spots ; and as having 

 dense, recumbent, luteo-cinereous pubescence, the antenna^ shorter 

 than the body, and the thorax two-fifths longer than wide.] " Ham." 



[S. stolata Newm., 1840, Eut. p. 305. 

 Length .35 inch. HaUtnt. — Florida. 



There is at present no Florida s]:)ecies known which corresponds 

 in all respects with Newman's very inadequate description which 

 requires an insect .35 inch, long with sparsely ciliate antennae shorter 

 than the liody, dilated elytra with a much interrupted vitta. By 

 some it has been considered the female of xaffK.sa. Its identity with 

 linum has likewise been suggested, but that .species has his})id an- 

 tennae as long as the body and parallel elytra ; and besides, New- 

 man's species were taken near Jacksonville, while the northern limit 

 of I'mmn seems to be near Crescent City (Schwarz), seventy miles 

 southward. Its status can only be determined by a careful com- 

 parison of American forms with Newman's tyi)es in the British 

 INTuseum.] " Hau)." 



$«AI>ERD.\ Fab. 



[The following table has been constructed so as to avoid the use (»f 

 sexual characters : 



Elytra separati^ly acuminate at tiji : color yellowish brown, with four obliiiue 

 darker bands 1. obliqiia. 



Elytra rounded at tij) with an acute sutural spitie; ]>ube.scence cinereous varie- 

 gated with fulvous, shot with numerous black denuded jioints. tliorax 



vittate 2. calcarata. 



Color nearly unifoi-ui. brownish yellow ; var. odspcrsa Lee. 



