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description. It is much larger than fuscoamea, of different color, 

 with smaller less prominent eyes, more distinctly punctate thorax 

 with deeper ante-basal groove, and entirely dark legs. 



Haltica blanchardi sp. no v. 



Elongate oblong, green, elytra slightly, thorax rather strongly 

 seneous. Antennae a little longer than half the body; piceous, 

 with slight metallic lustre; joints 3 and 4 subequal. Eyes prom- 

 inent, their width as seen from the front nearly equal to half the 

 interocular distance. Head above the frontal tubercles not visibly 

 alutaceous and nearly impunctate. Prothorax ^ wider than long, 

 sides parallel in basal half, convergent in front, subangulate medi- 

 ally, side margin moderate, surface plainly alutaceous, distinctly 

 though finely punctate, basal groove rather wide, vaguely attain- 

 ing the sides, sharply impressed at bottom, this sharper impression 

 terminating before reaching the margins; hind margin broadly 

 angulate at middle. Elytra oblong, not quite twice as long as 

 wide, sides parallel for f their length, surface distinctly alutaceous 

 and rather coarsely and closely punctate with scattered minute 

 punctures intermixed. Body beneath and legs piceous with dis- 

 tinct purple metallic lustre. Length, 3.1 mm.; width, 1.4 mm. 



Three examples only of this species are known to me; the type, 

 taken by myself at Tyngsboro, Mass., July 6, 1893, and two other 

 examples in the Blanchard Collection, also taken at Tyngsboro. 

 In size and form it agrees very closely with avvvna Horn and vac- 

 cinea Blatch., and with them only. In both these species the color 

 is more decidedly cupreous, and in neither of them is the surface 

 sculpture so marked as in hlanchardi, which has a finely scabrous 

 aspect. In amcpna, described from a unique example from Geor- 

 gia, the elytral punctuation is about as coarse but less dense than in 

 blanchardi, the thorax obsoletely punctulate, the basal impression 

 not quite so strong though quite sharply defined. Horn's state- 

 ment that the antennae are slightly longer than the body is a mani- 

 fest inaccuracy, nor should I describe the humeri as oblique. The 

 Floridian species vaccinea differs notably from blanchardi in its 

 smaller less transverse prothorax, with nearly straight feebly con- 

 verging sides, and with polished almost imperceptibly punctate 

 surface. 



