Goleopterological Notices, IV. 419 



Arizona. 



This species, although much smaller, is related to striata. It 

 will be readil\' known by its very dense punctuation, short protho- 

 rax and unusually long- beak; it is represented by a single female 

 specimen. 



5 Baris llispidllla n. s^x — Oval, strongly convex, shining, castaneous- 

 brown, the elytra paler led-brovvn. Head with a small frontal fovea, finely 

 but deeply punctured anteriorly, becoming minutely and sparsely so poste- 

 riorly, the transverse impression separating it from the beak unusually feeble ; 

 beak feebly arcuate toward base, straight in apical two-thirds, four-fifths as 

 long as the prothorax, coarsely, deeply, moderately closely punctate ; antennae 

 moderate, club rather short and stout, acutely conoidal, its basal joint consti- 

 tuting rather more than one-half the mass and pubescent in apical half. Pro- 

 tliorax elongate, just visibly wider than long, the sides almost evenly arcuate 

 throiighout, gradually becoming parallel near the base; apex broadly, feebly 

 arcuate, one-half as wide as the base, the latter not quite three times as wide 

 as the head, transverse, the median lobe unusually wide but feeble ; disk 

 with a moderately wide but not entire impunctate line, the punctures moder- 

 ately coarse, deep, somewhat elongated, separated by about their own widths 

 but tending to form longitudinal rugse toward base. Scutellum moderate, 

 transverse, broadly impressed. Elytra scarcely more than one-fifth longer 

 than wide, two-thirds longer tliau the prothorax, and, at the moderately 

 tumid humeri, abruptly nearly one-fourth wider than the latter ; sides parallel 

 in basal two-thirds, then gradually convergent, the apex semi-circularly 

 rounded ; disk with coarse, deep, abrupt, rather strongly but not closely 

 punctured grooves, the intervals but very slightly wider than the grooves, 

 each with a single series of coarse, very deep, rather close-set punctures ; 

 setse semi-erect, rather long, broad, subsquamiform, conspicuous. Abdomen 

 rather sparsely but strongly punctate, each puncture bearing a short but 

 robust, pale, subsquamiform seta. Anterior coxae large, globose, rather ap- 

 proximate, separated by one-fourth of their own width. Length 3.9 mm. ; 

 width l.S mm. 



Colorado. Mr. Jiilich. 



The type is a male, and has the al)donien rather narrowly and 

 distinctly impressed in the middle toward base. The peculiar pale 

 coloration may, in part at least, be due to immaturity, but the 

 species is remarkabl}' distinct in the coarse and squamiform nature 

 of the short and normally sparse setaj, these, as usual in the present 

 group, also bristling conspicuously from the lower surface of the 

 rostrum. 



fi Baris gravida n. sp.— Oblong, strongly convex, robust, black, pol- 

 ished, the set.-B rather small, setni-erect and moderately conspicuous on the 

 elytra. Bead obsoletely punctate, the transverse impression distinct, broadly 



