68 COLEOPTERA RHYNCHOPHORA. 



AULEUTES Dietz. 



A. luarioiiis n. sp. — Ve-y broadly oval, pitchy brown, thinly 

 clothed with very short concolorous hairs, with short intermixed white 

 hairs which tend to aggregate in small scattered spots on the elytra. 

 Beak stout, as long as the prothorax, coarsely densely punctate in 

 feeble longitudinal sulci with raised lines between ; front flat, densely 

 punctate, orbital margins elevated. Antennal funicle 6-jointed, first 

 three joints subequal in length, the first stouter, third just visibly 

 shorter than the second and rather longer than the fourth and fifth 

 together. Prothorax strongly transverse, sides parallel in basal two- 

 fifths, apical constriction rather narrow and deep, front margin obtusely 

 angulate each side of a small shallow median emargination, dorsal 

 channel distinct, lateral tubercles small, acute, punctuation dense, 

 moderately coarse. Scutellura very small but distinct, elongate, glab- 

 rous. Elytra fully as wide as long, three-fourths wider than the pro- 

 thorax, humeri rather prominently rounded, sides thence gradually 

 arcuately convergent to apex ; strial punctures rather coarse, intervals 

 alternately wider and strongly elevated, the wider ones especially rough- 

 ened with small acute granules. Beneath coarsely punctured, meta- 

 sternum obviously but not deeply emarginate for the tip of the beak. 

 Legs rather slender, tarsi paler, tibiae with outer margins strongly 

 curved near the knee but not angulate : claws with a very short acute 

 basal tooth. Length, 2\ mm. ; width, 1| mm. 



Described from a single specimen (type) taken at Marion, 



Massachusetts, by Mr. Frederick Blanchard. The facies is 



almost precisely that of Craponius inaegualis, the generic 



characters are, however, those of Aiileiites . The 6-jointed 



funicle, with very long and subequal second and third joints, 



and the strongly elevated alternate elytral intervals, strongly 



characterize this species. Only one other species of the 



genus — the tuberadatus of Arizona — has a 6-jointed funicle, 



and in it the second and third funicular joints are shorter 



than the first, and the elytral intervals nearly equal in width 



and convexity. 



BARIS Germ. 



B. texamis n. sp. — Elongate oval, black, legs rufopiceous, upper 

 surface somewhat dull from the density of the sculpture, the inter- 

 spaces of the pronotum are, however, polished and of the elytra shin- 

 ing and feebly wrinkled ; setae fine, short, recurved, distinct but not 

 very conspicuous. Head sparsely punctate, transverse impression very 

 broadly angulate in profile. Beak coarsely and densely punctate 

 throughout, three-fourths as long as the prothorax, nearly evenly arcu- 

 ate. Antennal funicle rather short and stout, basal joint less than 

 twice as long as wide, seventh joint three-fourths as wide as the club 



