100 MR. HALDEMAN'S DESCRIPTIONS OF COLEOPTERA. 



SCRAPTIA Xa/r. (1807.) Genera ii. 199. 



S. LUTEA Hald. Pale yellow, glossy, pubescent, finely punctate : eyes black, 

 antennae and abdomen dark brown, basal articulation, palpi, and head, with a tinge 

 of rufous : prothorax with the base subrectilinear and as wide as the elytra : scutel 

 triangular, elytra with a common brown sutural macula behind the middle, and 

 exhibiting a tendency to extend forward along the suture: feet pale. 1| 1. long. 

 New York. 



S. Bi-iMPRESSA Hald. Black, shining, minutely punctured, and clothed with pale 

 hair ; beneath and feet pale yellowish brown : pronotum with a large dilated 

 impression at the basal angles : apex of the elytra conjointly emarginate. 1^ 1. long. 

 Lake Superior. 



S. PALLIPES Mels. Pr. Acad. iii. 56. Far. y Head and prothorax without 

 impressions, and with the base of the elytra lateous ; the extremity of these, with the 

 margin and suture, fuscous. 1|1. long. South Carolina. Zimmerman. 



S. AMERICANA Hald. Dark fuscous, punctate, strongly pubescent ; head black, 

 antennae fuscous, mouth dark luteous, pectus and feet flavous ; prothorax and medial 

 basal portion of the elytra obscure yellowish brown, posterior and external margins, 

 with the scutel, fuscous. 1 1. long. North Carolina. — Zimmerman. Missouri 

 territory. aS. americana\T>e]. The prothorax is short, and has a slight impression 

 upon each side of the posterior margin. The western specimen has the middle of 

 the pectus fuscous, and the yellow of the under parts less bright. 



S. RUGOSA Hald. Punctate rugose, glossy, slightly pubescent, dark fuscous, 

 prothorax and base of the elytra paler : head, antennae and mouth, flavous. Maryland 

 — Zimmerman. A slender species, in which the external margins of the prothorax 

 and elytra are continuous. The pronotum is short, with an obsolete dilated 

 impression upon each side of the disk. 



S. FLAVicoLLis Hald. Black, pubescent, and coarsely punctate ; head, prothorax, 

 and feet, flavous : eyes fuscous ; antennae and maxillary palpi flavous, with the apex 

 of each fuscous. 1\ 1. long. New York. 



S. pusiLLA Hald. Black, pubescent, punctate ; elytra, pectus and antennae, with a 

 tinge of fuscous ; trophi and feet pale fuscous. 1 1. long. South Carolina — Zimmerman. 

 New York. =5. pusilla\.T)e]. 



AN ASP IS Ghff. 



A. FLAViPENNis Hald. Black, apparently impunctate, whitish sericeous : antennae 

 fuscous; base, with the labrum, clypeus, maxillary palpi, tarsi and tibiae, paler, 

 approaching yellowish brown; elytra pale brownish yellow. l\ 1. long. Lake 

 Superior. 



