98 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxi. 



by comparison his deccptiis, could not be confused with them, but 

 belongs to the triopsis group. 



Haliplus leopardus n. sp. 



Broadly oval, convex, ochraceous. 



Size: length 4-4K mm.; width 2^/2-2% mm. 



Head finely punctate, more closely towards the front, vertex nearly 

 smooth a few punctures only appearing; eyes large, round and moderately 

 convex ; antennae color of head and thorax. 



Pronotum evenly and closely punctured with deep, but not coarse, punc- 

 tures ; not depressed at base ; a large black spot placed centrally on the 

 front margin. 



Elytra broadly oval, widest just below the humeri and narrowing very 

 gradually to the exterior apical angle ; apices slightly oblique, not at all 

 sinuate, finely denticulate and with the angles obtuse ; maculate with seven 

 large, uneven black spots situated as follows : one subhumeral, one centrally 

 just above the median line, three submedian placed nearly horizontally and 

 equidistant from lateral margin to suture, the sutural one coalescent with 

 margin, two subapical, the exterior near side margin and the interior ob- 

 liquely above, which latter is elongate and connected by an arm to the suture ; 

 base broadly margined with black from suture to very near the lateral 

 margin and produced downward upon the elytra at center ; suture broadly 

 black from base to median coalescent spot and from it more narrowly to apex, 

 terminating in the usual triangular spot ; striae composed of rather large, 

 shallow punctures, smaller and less deep near the suture; sutural interspace 

 with a double row of small punctures and other interspaces with single rows 

 of very fine ones. 



Under surface of the same color as upper, with the joints of legs and 

 posterior margins of abdominal segments infuscate. 



Prosternal process very slightly convex laterally, finely, evenly and not 

 deeply punctured, parallel from base to apex, where it is narrowly margined ; 

 side margins thick, rather flat and distinctly punctured. Mid-metasternum 

 margined for about two thirds its length, the anterior third of which is 

 much thickened and somewhat arcuate ; finely and deeply punctured between 

 the margins, except a small space at center. 



Hind coxal plates with the apices broadly rounded from exterior angle to 

 apex and slightly sinuate from there to suture, where the angle is rectangular. 



Middle trochanters in both male and female deeply punctate on lower side. 



Male front and middle tarsi with the joints thickened but not at all 

 pedunculate; claws of both male and female noticeably shorter than those of 

 other species in the triopsis group. 



Types, male and female, from Egremont, Mass. (Roberts), in my 

 collection. 



I have seen specimens from Tyngsboro (Blanchard) and Cam- 



