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559 (8891). AULOBARIS PUSILLA Lee., 1868, 363. 



Oval, convex. Head and thorax piceous-black, shining, elytra paler; 

 antennae and legs reddish-brown; upper surface with white setae very 

 minute; each puncture of the under surface bearing an elongate, recum- 

 bent, strigose scale. Beak as long as thorax, feebly curved, finely and 

 sparsely punctate. Thorax scarcely wider than long, its punctures small, 

 deep, dense; those of elytral intervals in single rows feeble, close-set, 

 transverse. Length 2.5 3 mm. 



Lynchburg, Ya., Sept. 0. Described from "Middle States." 

 Recorded from New York, District of Columbia, North Carolina 

 and Iowa. 



560 (8902). AULOBARIS IRIS Lee., 1868, 365. 



Oblong-oval, robust. Black, strongly shining, the legs sometimes 

 reddish-brown. Antennal club small, oval, subequal in length to the 

 three preceding joints united. Thorax strongly convex, two-fifths wider 

 than long, finely, rather densely and deeply punctate, rarely with a 

 narrow smooth median line. Elytra not wider at base than middle of 

 thorax, sides feebly converging from base to apical fourth, then broadly 

 rounded to apex; stria? deep, intervals with single uneven rows of small 

 shallow punctures. Length 3 3.6 mm. 



Bainbridge and Spring Creek, Ga, ; July 15 29. Dunedin, 

 Baldwin and Enterprise, Fla.; Nov. 9 Dec. 13. Swept from low 

 meadows. Known also from Orange Mts., N. !., and Mississippi. 

 Taken on thistle by Dury. Specimens in the T T . S. Nat. Museum 

 from Haw Creek, Fla., are labelled "Pscnclo~bfiris luctuosa Casey." 



561 (8903). AULOBARIS NASUTUS Lee., 1868, 364. 



Oblong-oval, strongly convex. Black, feebly shining. Beak rather 

 slender, strongly curved, as long as head and thorax. Antennal club 

 equal in length to the preceding five joints united. Thorax conical, 

 strongly convex, one-third wider than long, disc finely, deeply, not densely 

 punctate. Elytra scarcely wider than base of thorax; stria? coarse, deep. 

 Length 2.S 3.5 mm. 



Agricultural College, Miss.; November. (Earned. } Recorded 

 also from Iowa and Kansas. Renamed naso by LeConte (1876, 

 289) but his first name, not being preoccupied in the genus in 

 which it was placed, will have to be reinstated. 



VIII. AMPELOGLYPTER Lee., 1876. (Gr., ''vine" + "engraver.") 



Small oblong or sub-oval species resembling Madarellus in the 

 smooth, shining and undulatory surface of elytra, but differing 

 in the shorter and stouter beak, unarmed front femora and in 

 having the tarsal claws connate at base. The antennal club is 

 elongate-oval and pubescent; elytra slightly wider than thorax, 



