Sept., 1922.] Blatchley: Notes on Rhynchophora. 115 



523. Baris strenua (Lect- 

 in his work Casey has made this a synonym of B. transversa Lee, 

 agreeing with the authors of the Rhynchophora that his former place- 

 ment of transversa and interstitialis Say under the name transversa 

 was wrong. Say, in the original description of transversa, states that 

 the third interval (interstitial line) has more than one series of punc- 

 tures, whereas both second and third intervals of strenua have two or 

 more. In the absence of Say's type no one can properly place trans- 

 versa. In my opinion it is as likely to be calUda Casey as it is strenua 

 Lee. 



534. Baris punctiventris Casey. 



A single individual was taken in Knox Co., Ind., October 15, by 

 sweeping along the edge of a cypress swamp. It was described from 

 that State but without a definite locality. 



Of the yy species of Baris described as new by Casey, 27 are attrib- 

 uted to the territory covered by the Rhynchophora. As the authors 

 of that work studied the Barinini of all the large collections in the 

 country except that of Col. Casey, and recognized only 30 species of 

 Baris as valid from the entire area covered, their concept of what 

 constitutes a species cannot but be widely divergent from that of Col. 

 Casey. 



533. Cosmobaris (Baris) scolopacea (Germ.). 



This species, as recognized in the Rhynchophora, has been made the 

 type of the new genus Cosmobaris Casey and described as new under 

 the name C. americana. He states that the European scolopacea " is 

 narrower and more cylindric with the pronotum squamose throughout ; 

 the scales of the elytra more uniformly oval and dense." Until oppor- 

 tunity is given to study and compare a large series of both European 

 and American forms, I prefer to retain the old specific name. 



554. Stenobaris avicennise Linell. 



A single example received from Chokoloskee was taken September 

 I, and another was secured at Cape Sable, February 20, while beating 

 the black mangrove, Avicennia nitida Jacq. Linell's types were taken 

 from the same shrub at Punta Gorda, and the only other known station 

 is Cocoanut Grove mentioned in the Schwarz Ms. 



