103 MR. HALDEMAN'S DESCRIPTIONS OF COLEOPTERA. 



palpi, and feet, ferruginous: prothorax simple, convex, anterior margin faintly 

 piceous, and without emargination ; anterior angles not produced ; base bisinuous ; 

 elytra with indistinct lines of punctures : beneath piceous, with a rufous tinge 

 towards the apex of the abdomen. 2 1. long. Rather wider than the preceding, and 

 distinguished by the bright impunctured surface. Carolina — Zimmerman. 



P. RUFicoLLis Lap. Br. asm. Zlb.=Neomida sanguinicollis Mels. Pr. Acad. iii. 61. 



P. RUFA Mels. (Neomida.) Pr. Acad. iii. 61. Not observed. 



P. piciPES Say. (Phaleria.) Long's Exp. Southern States, Virginia coast. 



P. piciLABRUM ilfefe. Pr. Acad. iii. 62. Pennsylvania and Maryland. Closely 

 allied to the preceding, but distinct. 



P. suBCosTATA Lap. Br. Ann. Sc. Nat. xxiii. 362. Georgia. 



P. CLYPEATUS Hald. Shining black ; head strongly and closely punctured except 

 ■upon the front, where it is more sparse ; a broad shallow transverse impression 

 between the eyes anteriorly : prothorax more finely punctured than the head ; 

 emarginate anteriorly ; base bisinuous, with a fovea upon each side ; lateral margin 

 reflexed : scutel scarcely punctate : elytra with strongly impressed strise filled with 

 impressed punctures ; a conspicuous punctate abbreviated stria with six or eight 

 punctures near the scutel ; interstices flat, densely and finely punctured : beneath 

 with the epipleura nigro-piceous, thickly and coarsely punctured : mandibles black ; 

 labrum, clypeus, and palpi, ferruginous; antennae and feet piceous. 3 1. long, 1| 

 wide. New York and Lake Superior. 



P. ExcAVATA Say. (Diaperis.) J. Acad. iii. 267. 



P. CYANESCENS Lap. Br. xxiii. 356. Georgia. 



P. ERYTHROCERA Lap. Br. xxiii. 355. Carolina. 



P. BiFASCiATUS Say. (Diaperis.) J. Acad. iii. 268. Pennsylvania and Missouri. 



The following have not been observed : 

 P. AMERICANA Lap. Br. xxiii. 358. 

 P poLiTA Lap. Br. "361. 



P. FALLENS Lap Br. " 377. — Iwida\.'De}. 



P. 4-MACULATA Lap. Br. •' 383. 

 P. CYANEA Lap. Br. " 392. 



