Coleopterological Notices, V. 525 



S. repanda, n. sp. — Rather broadly oval, polished, black, somewhat 

 piceoiis beneath, the legs and anteniiffi pale ; integuments subglabrous, the 

 decumbent hairs fine and very sparse ; head and pronotum impunctate ; elytra 

 strongly, sparsely punctured throughout ; metasternura, the inner part of its 

 parapleurse and the first ventral plate, except toward apex, strongly but not 

 so coarsely, sparsely punctured. Head vertical, moderate in size ; eyes large, 

 distant by twice their width ; aiitenn?e distant, as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, the third joint not twice as long as wide, barely one-half as long as 

 the fourth, which is four times as long as wide and not quite as long as the 

 fifth or sixth, the latt'^r equal, seventh longer, dilated and arcuate within, 

 three times as long as wide, eighth much shorter and thinner, joints of club 

 elongate, not much wider than the seventh. Proihorax three-fourths wider 

 than long, the apex barely two-fifths as wide as the base, the median lobe 

 broadly rounded ; basal angles distinctly produced and acute. Scutellum 

 minute but distinct. E/ijira as long as wide, twice as long as the prothorax, a 

 little wider at basal third than at base ; apices obliquely truncate, two-thirds 

 as wide as the maximum width, the angles rather narrowly rounded ; sutural 

 and marginal striae distinct, the basal obsolete at about the middle. Mes- 

 epimera long, narrow, extending three-fifths to the coxae ; met-episterna wide, 

 tlie suture fine and only moderately oblique. Legs slender ; hind tarsi about 

 as long as the tibite. the basal joint scarcely as long as the next three. Length 

 1.7 mm. ; width 1.05 mm. 



Iowa ; Missouri ; Massachusetts. 



Readily known by the punctuation and by the fact that the usual 

 post-co.Kal plate of the first ventral sediment is as completely oliso- 

 lete as in Baeocera, the hind margin straight and anteriorly oblique 

 outwardly. The size seems to be very uniform. 



S. COnvexa Say. — Journ. Ac. Phila., V, p. 183 ; Lee. : Proc. Ac. Phila., 

 ISUO, p. 323. 



Broadl}^ oval, highly polished, black, the under surface, legs and 

 antennae paler, rufous. Antennae long-, the third joint one-half 

 longer than wide, enlarged at apex, scarcely one-half as long as 

 the fourth, which is between three and four times as long- as wide; 

 fifth but little longer; sixth and seventh subequal, much longer, 

 nearly as long as the fourth and fifth together, the sixth feebly 

 dilated within, the seventh more strongly and arcuatelv so; eighth 

 shorter; club very elongate and slender, not wider than the seventh. 



impossible to modify a noun of one language by an adjective of another ; the 

 combination of letters " Scaphisoma" in the name Scapldsoma mfvla, cannot 

 therefore be Greek but must be Latin. Why we should maintain the Greek 

 gender, or any other attribute of the symbol as a Greek word, it is diflicult to 

 understand. 



