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obtusely rounded, the apex feebly sinuate; surface striate, the striae 

 impunctate, the intervals slightly convex, with a single dorsal 

 puncture, which is at posterior third on the third interval near the 

 second stria; under surface pitchy black, smooth, the abdomen with 

 a few punctures near the base and at the sides bearing accessory setae; 

 mentum without tooth. Length 10.0 mm. New Mexico (Fort 

 Bayard). [Harpalus obliquus Horn] obliquus Horn 



Legs piceous-black, the antennae obscure rufous. Black and shining 

 above, piceous-black beneath, the abdomen slightly rufescent; head 

 with small impressed punctures loosely and evenly distributed over 

 the entire surface, two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, the mandibles 

 stout, strigose, the eyes moderate, the antennae not extending to the 

 thoracic base; prothorax one-half wider than long, the sides rounded 

 anteriorly, very oblique and straight thence to the base, which is 

 broadly and very feebly sinuate throughout and barely more than 

 two-thirds the maximum width, the apex sinuato-truncate, with the 

 angles rounded; basal angles very obtuse, blunt though barely at all 

 rounded; surface convex, smooth, very shining, with some very fine 

 sparse punctulation basally, the foveae deep, a sixth the total length, 

 linear, punctate and separated from the sides by a convex surface; 

 elytra oval, subalutaceous, one-half longer than wide, a third wider 

 than the prothorax and less than three times as long, very obtuse at 

 apex, the sides roynded, the sinus broad and barely traceable, obso- 

 lete; striae fine, the scutellar oblique, the intervals flat, the dorsal punc- 

 ture small, at posterior third; intervals 3-5-7 with two to four small 

 punctures forming even medial series near the apex; lateral foveae 

 very small, widely separated throughout, with a few smaller and 

 sparser punctures intermingled; abdomen punctulate basally and 

 with numerous accessory setae; first three joints of the hind tarsi 

 subequal and much shorter than the fifth. Length (9 ) 10.5 mm.; 

 width 3.8 mm. Arizona (Peach Spring), Wickham. 



puncticeps n. sp. 



3 Form nearly as in the preceding, the anterior parts much smaller 

 when compared with the elytra than in the next species; deep black, 

 shining, the elytra less alutaceous than in puncticeps, the under 

 surface and legs piceo-rufous, the antennae and mouth parts fer- 

 ruginous; head not quite so large and with somewhat smaller eyes 

 than in the preceding, the surface with fine sparse punctures, evenly 

 disposed throughout but much more obsolete than in puncticeps; 

 prothorax similar in form but with the base transverse and recti- 

 linear throughout and with the very obtuse angles sharply marked 

 and not blunt at tip, though not at all prominent; surface nearly 

 similar, the side margin a little less fine and similarly disappearing 

 with the exception of the marginal bead near the hind angles, the 

 median stria also strong, not attaining base or apex, the scattered 

 basal punctures extremely minute, obsolescent medially, the foveae 

 sublinear but broadly and very feebly impressed and subobsolete, 

 finely punctulate; elytra oblong-oval, the humeri rather less broadly 

 rounded than in the preceding, the apical sinus rather more obvious, 

 the striae fine but more impressed, the scutellar still shorter and 



