RHYNCHOPHORA. 493 
Centrinites, but they differ from all the species referred to that genus in their small, 
subcontiguous tarsal claws, the more curved mandibles, the abruptly bowed, shorter 
rostrum, and the peculiar sculpture and vestiture of the body. The surface-sculpture 
is like that of Baris strenwa, and the vestiture is fine and hair-like, extending along 
both the striz and the interstices of the elytra. We are indebted to Mr. Wickham 
for the types of both species, which were captured by him in Mexico during the past 
year, showing that such well-known localities as Cuernavaca are by no means 
thoroughly investigated *. 
1. Lasiobaris wickhami, sp. n. (Tab. XXIII. fige. 25, 25a, 2.) 
o. Broad-ovate, robust, subopaque, rufo-piceous; above and beneath, the legs, and antenna somewhat 
thickly clothed with rather long, semierect, pallid, bristly hairs, which are arranged in a single row 
along each of the elytral sulci and interstices. Head shallowly, transversely grooved and somewhat 
rugosely punctate between the eyes, the vertex finely punctured ; rostrum about as long as the prothorax, 
slightly flattened at the tip, coarsely, closely punctate. Prothorax transverse, feebly constricted in front, 
the sides rounded anteriorly and subparallel at the base; densely pitted with large, rounded, umbilicate 
punctures, the disc with an abbreviated raised median line. Scutellum very small, transverse. Elytra 
convex, much broader than the prothorax, rounded-triangular ; coarsely, broadly punctato-suleate, the 
interstices (the narrow sutural one excepted) as wide as the sulci, finely costate on each side, and with a 
closely-packed single series of coarse punctures down the middle. Beneath very coarsely, densely 
punctate ; first ventral segment slightly depressed down the middle, the fifth foveate at the apex. 
Length 42, breadth 23 millim. 
IIab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (Wickham). 
One specimen, probably somewhat immature. 
2. Lasiobaris geminata, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 26, 26 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, somewhat flattened above, opaque, piceous, the outer margins of the elytra, the rostrum, 
antenne, and legs rufescent ; sparsely clothed with very small, fine, hair-like, decumbent, pallid scales, 
those on the elytra arranged in a single line down each of the sulci and interstices. Head finely 
punctate, transversely grooved between the eyes; rostrum nearly as long as the head and prothorax, 
closely, coarsely punctate. Prothorax transverse, constricted in front, the sides obliquely converging 
from the base and rounded anteriorly ; densely pitted with large, rounded, umbilicate punctures, the 
disc with an abbreviated raised median line. Scutellum small, oblong, apparently divided across the 
middle, the anterior portion rounded, the posterior portion transverse. Elytra rather elongate, rapidly 
narrowing from the oblique humeri; coarsely, broadly punctato-sulcate, the interstices as wide as the 
sulci, finely costate on each side, and with a closely-packed single series of moderately coarse punctures 
down the middle. Beneath very coarsely, densely punctate. 
Length 4,, breadth 2 millim. (2°) 
Hab. Mexico, Rio Balsas ( Wickham). 
One specimen. Longer, flatter above, and with the vestiture much shorter, finer, 
and sparser than in L. wickhami, the prothorax obliquely narrowing from the base, the 
interstitial punctures on the elytra not so large (much finer than those of the striae), 
the scutellum apparently divided into two. 
* He has also sent us Pseudocentrinus ochracevs, g and Q, from this place. 
