five bridges 33a 33b 33c 33d and 33e thereon body portion 31 also has a connecting indentation 34 which receives the connecting projection 23 on working needle 20 to connect the working needle 20 and butt needle 30 together while it is illustrated that the connecting projection 23 is on the working needle 20 and the connecting indentation is in the butt needle 30 it should be understood that the projection could be on the butt needle 30 and the indentation could be in the working needle 20 the position of the connecting projection 23 and connecting indentation 34 is farther from the needle head 21 than the position of the butt 32a generally the butt closest to the needle head is the butt that engages the needle lowering cam in an open cam track and generates the greatest shock wave therefore in butt needles having more than one butt it is the butt closest to the needle head that is of most concern and the one to which the present invention is particularly directed referring now to fig2 and 3 there is illustrated another embodiment of the present invention in which like parts are referred to by like reference characters with a prefix 34 1 34 added thereto latch needle 110 includes a working needle 120 and a butt needle 130 which are connected by a connecting projection 123 and indentation 134 butt needle 130 includes butts 132a 132b and 132c latch needle 110 differs from latch needle 10 in that it includes an auxiliary connecting means 140 as illustrated auxiliary connecting means 140 includes.