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Species, conii, roscc and ///));;', from Maine."" .^ince lUiger's orig- 

 inal description of igitiia calls for a species having the elytra " plica 

 siibmarginali," a character that no known American species, except 

 biniargiiiata Say. possesses, and since none of our entomologists have 

 seen his type and have heretofore '" guessed " at what species he had 

 in hand, it would t)e better, in my opinion, to either drop his name 

 from our lists or to carry it, as Woods has done, as an unknown 

 American species possessing an elytral submarginal fold. 



From the coppery-golden form assumed to he /V/>n/u hy I-"all, and 

 from all the species recently described from the composite ignita 

 Illig. of Horn, the first of the following two species differs in the 

 characters given sufficiently to justify its description as new. 

 Haltica gloriosa new species. 



Oval, rather strongly convex. Color a unitorni brilliant rcddish-purplc ; 

 antennae, tarsi and tibiae blackish-bronzed, pubescent. Fourth joint of an- 

 tennae one-fifth longer than third, twice the length of second. Head with 

 frontal carina distinct, sharp : eyes large but only moderately prominent : 

 vertex impunctate. Thorax subquadrate. one-fourth wider than long, base 

 and apex subequal in width : front angles nodulate, hind ones obtuse, sides 

 almost parallel, feebly undulate ; disk minutely alutaceous. very finely and 

 sparsely punctate, the transverse basal impression entire, its front portion le>- 

 elevated and abrupt, and hind one less sloping and more depressed than in 

 the ignita Illig. of Fall. Elytra oval, convex, one-third wider at base than 

 thorax, sides broadly curved, umbones evident but feeble, disk rather closely 

 and relatively coarsely punctate, the punctures behind the umbones plainly 

 seriate in arrangement. Abdomen finely and sparsely punctate, more closely 

 and rugosely in female, the hind margin of each segment fimbriate with fine 

 grayish hairs : hind femora finely pubescent. Last ventral of male with a dis- 

 tinct but small U-shaped emargination at tip which, when held in certain posi- 

 tions, has the appearance of a small rounded fovea. Length, z-i 3 mm. 



Marion Co.. Ind.. August 3. September 6. three specimens: Law- 

 rence Co.. May 1 i. The ones from Marion Co. were taken by swecp- 



"a Since this paper went to press there has appeared in Psyche. XXV'H, 

 1920, pp. loi-iii, one by Mr. Fall entitled: "On Certain Species of Haltica, 

 Old and Xew." In this he states that the H. uhni of Woods is a synonym of 

 H. carinata Germ., and that the rosar of Woods is " exceeding close, if 

 actually distinct" to what he (Fall) recognizes as the typical ignita UWk- 

 This latter form, he says, occurs in the Eastern States on laurel and was de- 

 scribed as H. kalmiar by Melsheimer. Fall describes four new species in the 

 paper cited, two. f'lirpiirea and blaiicluirdi. from Massachusetts, heuchera- 

 from Manitoba and 7-i(ilis from X. w M. vicn .hkI Ari/on.i. 



