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not reaching the middle of the length ; lateral punctures a- 
bout five, the second and fifth placed a little above the 
straight line; marginal punctures two or three; towards the 
anterior angles are numerous obsolete discoidal punctures^ 
visible with a strong power : scutel glabrous, black : elytra 
rufous, densely punctured, with short prostrate hairs : ter- 
gum at tip slightly tinged withpiceous: tibice^ tarsi and 
posterior margins of the ventral segments piceous. 
Length over seven -twentieths of an inch. 
This species seems to have some relation to the laiicollis 
Grav. but the thorax is less dilated, the lateral puncturations 
are much more numerous ; the elytra are of a different col- 
our, &c. Fam. 1st. 
■i. S. hlandus, Grav. The reddish colour of this hand- 
some insect is of a tint approaching sanguineous. 
Gravenhorst had probably old specimens of which the col- 
our had faded. He describes the feet as ^hmfo-testacei,’^ 
but in my specimens the tibiae and tarsi are piceous. Me 
says ^^coleoptera depilia’^ but my specimens certainly have 
prostrate hairs on the elytra as well as on the scutel. If 
this is not in reality Gravenhorst’s species, it differs in the 
exceptions I have stated and can be called Imtulns. Fam. 1st. 
j. S. inversusy Black ; dorsal thoracic punctures tliree. 
Inbab. Indiana. 
Head with an orbital puncture, and another above the 
eye: mouth and antennce piceous ; joints of the flagellum 
rather transverse, point of the last joint not prominent: tho- 
rax a little narrowed before; dorsal punctures three, the se- 
ries nearer each other at tip than near the head and kard- 
iy reaching the middle of the length ; lateral two, remote, 
with a single puncture midway between the second and the 
dorsal series ; marginal one : scutcZ glabrous, impunctured : 
elytra on the disk with but very few hairs ; punctures few, 
distant, almost to be traced into obsolete series ; laterally 
with small punctures, furnishing short hairs ; tergiim in 
some lights, slightly iridescent towards the tip: beneath ve- 
ry obscurely piceous : feet piceous. 
Length nearl}^ three-tenths of an inch. 
The two dorsal series of punctures in other species di- 
verge a little posteriorly, but in the present species they evi- 
dently approach towards their posteriort erraiuati on. Fam. \ , 
