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alternate ones with very short yellowish bristles. L. 1;^ 1. 

 Common. C. oryzae, Lin. 



BAJRiniDES. 



Eostrum variable, but never very long or slender, often 

 separated from forehead by a transverse furrow, more or 

 less laterally compressed, curved ; scrobes commencing in 

 middle or a little beyond it ; antennae short, club large, 

 oblong oval or oval ; presternum not channeled ; meso- 

 sternum not forming a continuous surface with pro- and 

 meta-sternum ; pygidium not covered, small, nearly hori- 

 zontal ; body oblong. Baris, Germ. 



Baris. 



A, Upper-side not clothed with scales. 



d* Under-side thickly covered with liairs. 



Long, almost cylindrical. Black, moderately shiny ; 

 upper-side with very fine, scattered, whitish hairs ; meso- 

 and metasternum and abdomen thickly covered with white 

 scales. Thorax closely and deeply punctured, with smooth 

 central line ; elytra with deep striae, which are scarcely 

 punctured, interstices with a row of very fine, feeble punc- 

 tures. L. If — 2 1. Eather common. B. T-alhum, Lin. 



b. Under-side without scales, or only with extremely 

 small bristles in the punctures. 



JT. Elytra unicolorous black. 



Oblong. Black, rather shiny. Eostrum rather thick, 

 punctured ; thorax oblong, very finely, shaLlowly, diffusely 

 punctured ; elytra with very fine, shallow striae, in which 

 are small, isolated punctures, interstices flat, broad, with an 

 extremely fine network of scratches and a row of very fine 

 punctures. L. 2 1. Scarce. B. laticollis, Marsh. 



II, Elytra unicolorous blue or green. 



1» Thorax black ; interstices on elytra distinctly 

 punctured. 



Oblong. Black, not very shiny ; elytra dark blue. 

 Eostrum as long as thorax, punctured ; thorax not very 

 convex, finely and closely punctured, narrowed in front; 

 elytra with simple striae, not dilated behind shoulders, 



