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straight ; wing-covers slightly shorter than the body ; 

 wings nearly abortive. 



Brown ; sides of the pronotum, and of the first, two or 

 three abdominal segments, shining black ; face and mouth- 

 parts paler; a reddish brown, curved streak on the top of 

 the head from inner edge of eye to lateral carinae of pro- 

 notum ; legs yellowish brown ; posterior femora with one 

 or two dark streaks on the sides ; posterior tibiae black at 

 tip and base. 



Length of body, .67 in. ; of antennae, .39 in. ; of wing- 

 covers, .38 in. ; of hind femora, .42 in. 2 . 



Mass., (S. H. S.) Maine, (Packard.) 



Easily distinguished from any other species by the 

 black sides of the pronotum. 



* 3. S. LONGIPENNIS, UOV. Sp. 



Vertex of the head as in S. melanop/eurus, but with no 

 median ridge, and having very distinct foveolas, long, nar- 

 row, deep; lateral carinae of pronotum equally prominent 

 with the median, approximate, convergent anteriorly, di- 

 vergent at posterior border; coarse, shallow punctures on 

 the posterior half of pronotum ; posterior border arcuated ; 

 wing-covers longer than body; wings scarcely shorter than 

 wing-covers. 



Head and thorax brown; a broad, black band on the 

 sides, behind the eye, extending to hind edge of pronotum, 

 limited above by the lateral carinae, below merging into 

 the brown ; a narrow, straight, longitudinal streak on top 

 of head, starting from inner border of the eye ; parts of the 

 mouth yellowish ; antennae yellowish brown at base, the 

 rest brown or black ; legs yellowish brown ; hind tibiae, ex- 

 cept the black base, and slender portion of hind femora 

 reddish brown, extremity black ; abdomen yellow beneath, 

 above brown ; wing-covers uniform brown. 



Length of body, $ .55 in., 9 .7 in.; of antennas, .36 



JOURNAL B. S. N. H. 58 NOVKMBEK, 1862. 



