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region is more marked than to any of the eastern forms, but tlie 

 basal impression of the thorax is much stronger than in the latter. 

 I have seen a good series of inarata collected at Winnipeg and 

 Husavick, Manitoba (Wallis) . 



There are yet a considerable number of probably new species in 

 my collection, of which the following four may I think be described 

 at this time in a recognizable manner. 



Haltica purpurea sp. nov. 



Oval, moderately elongate, dark bronze, the elytra with distinct 

 purple lustre, surface shining. Head and thorax very finely aluta- 

 ceous, varying to scarcely visibly so; elytra distinctly alutaceous. 

 Antennae piceous, about ^ as long as the body, 4th joint slightly to 

 scarcely longer than the 3d, fully twice as long as wide; 10th not 

 quite twice as long as wide. Head 1 as wide as the prothorax, eyes 

 only moderately prominent, their width as seen from the front 

 evidently less than half the interocular distance; vertex contiguous 

 to the flattened tubercles smooth, almost without pvmctures. 

 Prothorax f as long as wide, sides narrowly margined, narrowed in 

 front, subparallel in basal half and either with or without a feeble 

 sinuation before the hind angles; punctuation sparse and minute, 

 ante-basal impression fine and sharply defined, but not deep and 

 not quite attaining the sides. Elytra distinctly oval in outline, 

 widest at the middle, not quite | wider than the thorax in the male, 

 the female a little stouter; punctuation much more distinct than 

 that of the thorax, but rather fine, the punctures separated on the 

 average by about twice their own diameters, intermixed finer 

 punctures almost entirely lacking. Body beneath and femora 

 piceous, more or less distinctly purpvireous; tibise and tarsi 

 scarcely metallic. Last ventral of male with the usual apical lobe 

 and smoother median impression. Length, 3.3 to 3.8 mm.; width, 

 1.8 to "2.1 mm. 



Described from a series of 3cf's, 19, taken at Tyngsboro and 

 near Lowell, Mass., by the late Frederick Blanchard, from whom I 

 received them. 



An attempt to place this species by Horn's table through a 

 strict interpretation of the characters there used is likely to prove 

 abortive. The oval form of the elytra is quite suggestive of the 

 much larger californica and obliterata, as well as cuprascens Blatch. 



