HARPALIN^E 103 



Basal angles less broadly rounded, the base not posteriorly oblique 

 laterally 26 



26 Body oblong, strongly convex, piceous-black, the elytra dark brown, 

 the under surface deep piceous-black, the epipleura pale testaceous; 

 surface shining, the elytra (9) slightly alutaceous but much more 

 shining than in fallax, the scutellar stria much longer than in that 

 species; head relatively a little larger, fully three-fifths as wide as 

 the prothorax, the eyes prominent and the antennae slender; foveae 

 small and perforate but lying in feeble impressions of the surface; 

 prothorax one-half wider than long, the sides rounded anteriorly, 

 feebly converging and straight in about basal half; base transverse, 

 with the lateral part slightly rounded; apex much narrower and 

 with unusually feeble sinus, the angles very broadly rounded; surface 

 with the fine pallid marginal gutter much more dilated posteriorly 

 than in fallax, disappearing nearly at basal third, the foveae large, 

 more broadly and evenly impressed but moderately deep, very densely 

 and rugosely punctate; anterior transverse impression evident as a 

 fine arcuate line, the stria fine but distinct; elytra relatively longer 

 than in fallax, obtusely rounded in apical third, fully one-half 

 longer than wide, barely at all wider than the prothorax, the parallel 

 sides very feebly arcuate; striae fine, feebly impressed, the puncture 

 near apical third and on the third interval at some distance from 

 the stria; apical sinus feeble but evident, less obsolete than in fallax ; 

 hind tarsi nearly similar though less elongate. Length (9)8.8 mm. ; 

 width 3.7 mm. Michigan (Marquette) innocuus Lee. 



Body oblong-elongate, smaller, narrower and rather less convex than 

 the preceding, black when mature, with pallid ambient margins, the 

 under surface black, the epipleura picescent, very shining above, 

 alutaceous beneath; head rather more than three-fifths as wide as 

 the prothorax, the eyes prominent, the foveae rather coarse, perforate, 

 not lying in feeble impressions; antennae and palpi pale testaceous, 

 slender; prothorax fully one-half wider than long, the base much 

 wider than the apex and not more arcuate near the sides; apex more 

 sinuate than in innocuus; sides more feebly arcuate anteriorly, 

 thence nearly straight and feebly converging to the rounded hind 

 angles; surface with the anterior arcuate impression broader, feebler 

 and nearer the apex than in innocuus and barely evident, the sides, 

 basal foveae and punctuation nearly similar; elytra about as wide 

 ' as the prothorax and one-half longer than wide, parallel, with feebly- 

 arcuate sides and obtusely rounded apex, the sinus very feeble but 

 evident; striae rather fine though well impressed, at least inwardly, 

 the scutellar long, much longer than in fallax, the puncture adherent 

 to the second stria near apical fourth; tarsi shorter than in fallax, 

 the second joint of the intermediate (c?) nearly one-half wider than 

 long. Length (cf 1 ) 8.8 mm.; width 3.2-3.25 mm. New Jersey 

 and Maine (Wales Frost). Confounded with fallax by LeConte 

 and Horn but not very closely related placidus Csy. 



27 Marginal gutter of the pronotum posteriorly expanding and flatten- 

 ing to a slight degree 28 



