HARPALIN^E 211 



Form broader, more oblong, not quite so convex, deep black, the fine 

 reflexed thoracic margins slightly pallid; under surface piceous; legs 

 and rather long slender antennae pale testaceous; lustre shining, the 

 elytra (9 ) just visibly alutaceous and sometimes with a very feeble 

 violet-blue tinge, never observable in the preceding; head slightly 

 larger, with somewhat larger and notably more prominent eye - , the 

 foveae very small and feeble; prothorax nearly as in the preceding 

 but slightly more transverse and with still more blunt and perceptibly 

 rounded basal angles; foveae extremely faint and vague, not in the 

 least lineiform; elytra rather short, less rounded at the sides than 

 in convexnlns, obtusely ogival at apex, with rather strong sinus, a 

 fifth wider than the prothorax; striae very fine, much finer than in 

 the preceding, with the intervals perfectly flat, though becoming 

 very faintly convex suturally. Length (cf 9 ) 9.0-9.3 mm.; width 

 3.8-4.0 mm. Texas (Galveston and westward nearly to El Paso). 

 Five examples. Probably allied closely to purpurascens Bates. 



inaudax n. sp. 



Form only moderately elongate and convex, the size still much smaller, 

 black or slightly piceous, the fine peripheral bead of the pronotum 

 diaphanously pale; under surface piceous; legs testaceous, the 

 femora somewhat paler than the tibiae and tarsi; antennae and palpi 

 slender and pale testaceous; lustre strongly shining throughout in 

 both sexes; head moderate, rather elongate, the eyes moderate in size 

 and prominence; foveae excessively minute, almost obsolete; epi- 

 stoma with a single angular puncture as usual; prothorax one-half 

 wider than long, the sides unusually parallel, evenly and rather 

 strongly arcuate; apex very moderately sinuate, evidently narrower 

 than the base, which is transverse, with the angles obtuse and narrowly 

 rounded; surface nearly as in the preceding, except that the marginal 

 line is very narrow, extremely feebly defined, not deplanate and 

 disappears somewhat behind the middle; median stria very much 

 stronger than in any of the preceding, extending from base to apical 

 third, where it meet.- the very feeble angulate transverse impression; 

 foveae rather finely sublinear but so feeble as to be barely traceable; 

 elytra nearly a in convexuhis, about a fifth wider than the prothorax, 

 with distinct sinus and fine striae; intervals similar in the sexes, flat, 

 becoming faintly convex suturad, slightly convex on the declivity, 

 there much more narrowed and more convex than in any of the 

 preceding; hind tarsi very slender, the basal joint much longer than 

 the fifth. Length (cf 9 ) 7.4-7.7. mm. ; width 3.0-3.2 mm. Missouri 

 (St Louis) and Texas. Apparently not common. [Harpalus agilis 

 Dej.] agilis Dej. 



6 Body oblong-suboval, moderately convex, nearly as in inaudax but 

 more elongate, more obtuse at apex and with shorter and deeper 

 sinus, piceous-black, the elytra deeper blue-black, the sides of the 

 pronotum d'aphanously paler; slender antennae and legs testaceous; 

 head as in inaudax but with deeper foveae, lying within deeper 

 impressions, the eyes similarly well developed and prominent; pro- 

 thorax similar, except that the basal foveae are long and finely linear 

 though feeble, not broadly and vaguely impressed; elytra longer, 



