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to Harpalus, because of the distinctly dilated and squamulose 

 male tarsi. There can be hardly a doubt that it represents a dis- 

 tinct genus however, which is proposed under the above name. 

 The single known species is the following: 



Body stout, oblong and convex, shining, dark rufo-piceous, the under 

 surface and legs a little paler; antennae and trophi testaceous; head 

 three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, with prominent and moderate 

 eyes; antennae rather slender, extending well behind the thoracic 

 base, the third joint distinctly longer than the second or fourth; 

 mandibles short and stout, flattened above, feebly strigose apically, 

 the left with a finely incurved point at apex, the right simply obliquely 

 acute at tip; frontal foveae short, irregularly impressed; prothorax 

 between a third and fourth wider than long, broadly rounded at the 

 sides, sinuately narrowing basally, the angles right and sharply 

 marked; base transverse, as wide as the apex, feebly bisinuate, 

 finely margined; surface convex, with fine diffused punctures latero- 

 basally, the median stria distinct, the foveae short, rather deeply 

 impressed, the side margins finely reflexed and equally so to the 

 basal angles, being separated from the foveae at base by a convexity 

 as in Cratacanthus and Glanodes; elytra short, oblong-oval, evidently 

 wider than the prothorax and two-fifths longer than wide, very 

 obtuse at apex, the sinus indistinct, vestigial; sides broadly arcuate; 

 striae fine but rather well impressed, with a setigerous puncture just 

 outside the second before apical third, the scutellar stria rather short; 

 marginal punctures irregular, subinterrupted medially; basal joint 

 of the hind tarsi barely longer than the second, evidently shorter than 

 the fifth; abdomen with basal punctulation and some accessory setae 

 as in Glanodes and many Harpali. Length (cf 1 ) 7.3-7.5 mm.; 

 width 2.8-2.9 mm - Arizona (southern). [Cratognathus cordatus 

 Lee.] cordatus Lee. 



The affinity of this species with the Harpalus obliquus of Horn, 

 has been pointed out by that author under his description of the 

 latter, which is here referred to the Daptini, especially because 

 there is no evidence at hand that the anterior tarsi of the male are 

 dilated and squamose. Perhaps, however, I may have mistaken 

 the sex of the type of Glanodes regressus; it is quite different in 

 general form from the types of the other species, owing to the 

 relatively larger head and prothorax, and, as those types are un- 

 equivocally female, it is assumed that the type of regressus is a male. 

 However, even though the anterior male tarsi of Glanodes should 

 prove to be harpaliform, it cannot be congeneric with Opadius 

 cordatus, though in such case to be placed near the present genus 

 in the Harpalini, instead of in its present place at the end of the 



