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shining, very broad and convex, legs and antennae rufo-piceous. Head 

 very broad, black, shining, smooth, the frontal impressions small, antennae 

 short, not reaching the base of thorax, dark testaceous; thorax one-half 

 broader than long, sides distinctly depressed at and behind the middle, basa^ 

 foveae broad, not very deep, finely punctured, sides well rounded before, dis- 

 tinctly narrowed behind, basal angles obtuse and rounded at the extreme 

 apex, the fine raised border is distinct at the side and base, the dorsal line 

 distinct, abbreviated in front; elytra a little wider than the thorax, not deeply 

 striate, impunctured, interstices flat, a dorsal puncture behind the middle 

 near the second stria, N. H., Me., Vt. The large head and convex and obese 

 form, well mark this beetle. In the 9 the elytra are slightly opaque or 

 silky (sericeo-opaca) and generally with a small sutural spine. In nearly all 

 of my specimens the sides of the thorax for a short space behind the middle 

 are very slightly sinuate, the terminal spur of the anterior tibiae is quite long 

 and broad. 



Harpatus rufimanus, Lee, '40-48. Black, shining ; tibiae, tarsi and 

 antennae rufo-piceous. Head smooth, not as broad as in the preceding, 

 antennae quite short; thorax distinctly wider than head, one-half wider than 

 long, sides slightly depressed behind, broadly rounded and distinctly narrowed 

 posteriorly, basal foveae deep, somewhat linear, finely and confluently punc- 

 tured, basal angles obtuse, scarcely rounded and sparsely punctured ; elytra 

 wider than thorax, 9 " sericeo-opaca," striae deeper than in the preceding, 

 impunctured, a small but distinct sutural spine in the 9, behind the middle 

 two dorsal punctures on the third interstices, near the second stria. The 

 two punctures near together behind the middle on each elytron mark this 

 beetle from all the other species, and perhaps I may say from all Harpalidee. 

 I cannot understand why this peculiarity has not been noted ; Dr. LeConte 

 neither mentions it in his description of the species (Am. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 4,402), or in his notes " On the species of Harpalus inhabiting America, north 

 of Mexico" (Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, page 98, 1865). I have 

 in my collection 3 $ , 2 9 thus marked, one of which Dr. Horn, of Phila- 

 delphia, and Mr. Ulke, of D. C, identified as H. rvfimanus 7 Lee. I have seen 

 two specimens in another collection thus marked, and I have also seen in 

 Dr. Harris' collection, a specimen sent him by Dr. LeConte, from Lake 

 Superior, and by me sent back to Dr. LeConte last year, for the Boston 

 Society Nat. Hist., to be identified ; now with eight specimens before me, 

 one from Lake Superior, the others from N. H. near the White Mountains, 

 all that I have ever seen agreeing perfectly with all descriptions (save this 

 peculiarity), and these particular specimens identified by Dr. LeConte, Dr. 

 G-. H. Horn and Mr. Henry Ulke, three of our greatest American Entomolo- 

 gists, I can see no reason for believing this an accidental marking. 



