HARPALIN/E 77 



wanting or more greenish ( 9 ), the general characters as in amputatus, 

 the prothorax much more transverse though with similarly very 

 broadly rounded basal angles, fully two-thirds wider than long, the 

 surface nearly similar; elytra shorter, much less than one-half (cf), 

 to two-fifths (9), longer than wide, with broadly arcuate sides, 

 barely wider than the prothorax, the apical truncature ( 9 ) wider, 

 straighter and only becoming denticularly prominent at the suture 

 itself; tarsi somewhat longer. Length (cf 9 ) n.o mm.; width 4.2- 



4.4 mm. New Mexico. Three examples transversus n. sp. 



3 Form oblong, moderately convex, testaceous in color, the elytra 

 alutaceous in the female and without trace of metallic lustre, the 

 head as in the others, the mandibles closely and finely strigose; 

 antennae a little shorter; prothorax nearly two-thirds wider than long, 

 as in amputatus, except that the basal angles though obtuse are 

 much less broadly rounded and not obliterated; elytra short, oblong, 

 with broadly rounded sides, two-fifths longer than wide and very 

 distinctly wider than the prothorax, the apical truncature not 

 transverse as in the two preceding, but distinctly oblique from the 

 broadly rounded external angles to the prominent and apically 

 everted sutural angles and very feebly sinuate; under surface and 

 legs still paler than the upper surface; hind tarsi more slender than 

 in either of the preceding. Length (9) 9.0 mm.; width 3.5 mm. 

 Arizona. A single example papagonalis n. sp. 



It is quite certain that the type of papagonalis is immature to 

 some extent and that the normal coloration is darker, but there is 

 no contraction or distortion due to drying; in any event, the form 

 of the elytral tips and basal thoracic angles, as well as total absence 

 of the metallic coloration, which is always observable even in the 

 palest, most immature and testaceous examples of amputatus, will 

 readily identify the species; it is also materially smaller in size in 

 all probability. 



Group V (pennsylvanicus] . 



This group includes a considerable number of forms, numbering 

 among them our commonest species, pennsylvanicus, erythropus, 

 and compar being extremely abundant almost everywhere east of 

 the Rocky Mountains; it is also a very usual type of the genus 

 throughout Europe and Asia. The body is in general rather 

 elongate, the pronotum flattened and strongly, generally densely 

 punctate postero-externally and with the basal angles distinct as a 

 rule and but slightly blunt or rounded, though never sharply 

 marked, it being one of the decisive marks of the true Harpalus 

 throughout, that the angles are never sharply rectangular as in 



