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Covered witli silvery pubescence, which is Tiiost apparent on the face. 



■^ . 12.5 mm. First ahdoininal segment about four times as wide as long and 

 without a median impunctate space; second segment distinctly shorter than the 

 first, median space hardly indicated ; third segment a little longer than the sec. 

 ond. with only a suggestion of a smooth space; edge of fourth segment with 

 tiie spines stronger and more abundant than in the female. 



Type locality, Yakima City, Washiiiorton. Type, Mus. Conip. 

 Zool. Carab. 9 , July 2, 8, 4, 1882, Yakima City, Wash. ; June 

 27. 1882, Camp Umatilla, Wash. I , June 30, 1882, Lone Tree, 

 Yakima River, Wash.; June 27, 1882, Camp Umatilla, Wash.; 

 June 25, 1882, Umatilla, Or. (Hagen and Henshaw). 



Parnopes henshawi n. s)). 



9. 9 mm. Head. — With no cuneiform shining punctured area diverging from 

 the central cuneiform depression. 



Thorax. — Parapsidal grooves distinct, the sculpture of the S[)ace between the 

 parapsidal grooves anteriorly not very difiFerent from the sculpture of the parap- 

 sides as in hagerd, except on the extreme anterior border where the sculpture is 

 close and the integument blackish; oblique oblong reticulate space of the meso- 

 pleura bounded by a sharj) ridge behind ; iio.stscutelium broader at base than at 

 apex. 



Abdomen. — First abdominal segment about three times as broad as long, with a 

 slight median impunctate space; second abdominal segment with the median 

 longitudinal impunctate space starting as a rugulose dejjression, no impunctate 

 space on the third segment. 



Color. — Almost entirely purple or blue, tibipe with some green, tarsi various 

 shades of brown, fiagellum and mandibles black and brown. 



Silvery pubescence most abundant on the head. 



% . — Scutellum not so sharply separated from the mesonotum as from the post- 

 scutellum, punctured so as to appear reticulate, the lateral oval pit and small 

 space adjoining finely rugulose; postscutellum with the quadrate productio7i ex- 

 tending outwards and slightly upwards, gently rounded, wider than long, not 

 excavated on the superior jilane. but imperfectly reticulate. 



Abdomen. — First segment about three times as broad as long, slightly narrower 

 anteriorly than posteriorly, anterior edge curved, not deeply depressed in three 

 places, only slightly jmnctured as in hageni ; second abdominal segment as in 

 hageni, but the median impunctate space is replaced by a densely punctured, dull, 

 slight groove, distinctly depreseed one-fourth ; a median densely punctured, dull 

 groove extending over the third segment, distinctly depressed one-fourth ; only 

 about twelve prominent spines on the edge of the apical segment. 



Color. — Pur|)le and blue, tibije and mandibles partly, tarsi entirely brownish, 

 tlagellum l>lack. 



Pubescent, with silvery hairs, most abundant on the head, nowhere hiding the 

 sculpture. 



Type locality, Umatilla, Oregon. Type, Mus. Comp Zool. Camb. 

 9, June 24, 1882, Umatilla, Or.; June 27, 1882, Camp Umatilla, 



TR.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXX. AUGUST. 1904. 



