460 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
Hab. Nortu America, Wisconsin 12, Kansas!23, Montana’, New Mexico 2, Texas %, 
Arizona °.—Mexico* (coll. Solari), Cuernavaca (Sallé, Wickham), Toluca, Puente de 
Ixtla (Wickham), Chilpancingo, Amula, and Tepetlapa (H. H. Smith), Guanajuato, 
‘Toxpam, Yolos (Sal/é), Cordova (Hége), Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer) ; GUATEMALA, 
San Geronimo (Champion). 
Found in numbers at Cuernavaca and Temax, and singly in Guatemala. A broad 
form, with prominent ridges on the underside of the rostrum towards the tip, com- 
paratively short elytra, a strongly transverse prothorax, and conspicuous vestiture, the 
elytral interstices narrowly subcostate on each side and coarsely uniseriate-punctate 
down the middle. Colonel Casey has kindly sent us specimens of B. strenua, from 
Kansas, for comparison, and also of B. umbilicata, Lec , the latter chiefly differing from 
B. strenua in the less prominent humeri and the non-costate elytral interstices. ‘The 
examples before me measure : length 4-6, breadth 2;4-3 mm. 
4, Baris sinuatirostris, sp. n. (Tab. XXII. figg. 11, lla, 2.) 
Oblong-ovate, subopaque, nigro-piceous or black, the anterior margin of the prothorax, the tip of the 
rostrum, and legs, and in one specimen the elytra also, rufescent; the elytra with a row of short, 
semierect sete along each interstice, the punctures on the under surface and legs also bearing small 
setiform scales. Head closely punctate, transversely grooved between the eyes ; rostrum stout, arcuate, 
a little shorter than the prothorax, coarsely, closely punctate, with two undulate longitudinal ridges 
towards the apex beneath. Prothorax strongly transverse, rounded at the sides anteriorly, narrow at 
the apex ; densely pitted with very coarse, rounded punctures. Scutellum strongly transverse. Elytra 
a little wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowing from the rounded humeri; punctato-sulcate, the 
interstices slightly wider than the sulci, narrowly subcostate on each side, and each with a closely-packed 
row of coarse punctures down the middle. Beneath coarsely, closely punctate ; first ventral segment 
excavate down the centre in the ¢. Anterior cox rather narrowly separated. Tibia somewhat 
hairy, sharply dilated at the apex externally, the anterior pair sinuate within in the ¢. 
Length 34-32, breadth 14-1,3, millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, San Angel, Distrito Federal (Wickham). 
One pair, captured during the past year by Mr. Wickham. Smaller and duller than 
Sb. strenua, Lec., the prothorax still more densely punctate, the legs at least rufescent, 
the entire under surface very coarsely and closely punctured in both sexes. The 
punctures of the elytral interstices are as coarse as those of the strie. 
5. Baris sulcipennis. (Tab. XXII. figg. 12, 12a, 2.) 
Baris sulcipennis, Brisout, Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1870, pp. 387, 49°; v. Heyden, Deutsche ent. 
Zeitschr. 1882, p. 255. 
Baridius puncticollis, Sturm, in litt. (nec Boh.) *. 
Hab. Mextco?* (Sallé, ea coll. Sturm), Chilpancingo and Tepetlapa in Guerrero 
(H. H. Smith), Cuernavaca, Puente de Ixtla (Wickham), Juquila in Oaxaca (Sallé) ; 
GUATEMALA, J)uefias, Capetillo (Champion). 
Dr. Lucas v. Heyden has been kind enough to communicate the type of this species, 
which was said to have been found in Germany!. It is not the B. puncticollis of 
