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a little less than twice as long as the prothorax, the grooves very 

 wide and deep, the intervals but slightly wider than the grooves, 

 very coarsely deeply and approximately punctate, the punctures 

 contiguous and generally more or less confused toward base. Set;Ti 

 cinereous, long, erect and very conspicuous but not squamiform. 

 Length 4.5-6.8 mm.; width '2.1-2.8 mm. 



Arizona, Texas, Kansas and Montana. The series before me 

 consists of fourteen s])ecimens. In one the thoracic punctures are 

 larger than usual and somewhat longitudinally subcoalescent. The 

 prosternum is generally perfectly flat, but in two or three examples 

 not otherwise materially differing, it becomes more or less distinctly 

 impressed along the middle. 



8 Baris callida n. sp. — Oblong-oval, strongly convex, deep black 

 througliout, polished. Head minutely, sparsely, tlie beak strongly jiunc- 

 tured, the latter densely rugnlose at the sides, feebly arcuate, moderately 

 stout, scarcely two-thirds as long as the prothorax ; antennae moderate, the 

 club rather small, with the basal joint niucli less than one-lialf of its total 

 length, highly polished. Prothorax nearly two-fifths wider than long ; sides 

 feebly convergent in basal two-thirds, then rather strongly rounded, thence 

 moderately strongly convergent and nearly straight to the apex ; base about 

 three times as wide as the head, subtransverse, the median lobe moderate in 

 size and prominence ; disk with an ill-defined central impunctate spot, the 

 punctures very large, deep, uneven in shape and distribution but rather 

 dense, nearly as large as the scutellum and as a rule separated by scarcely 

 one-half of their own dimensions. Scutellum rather small. Eli/tra one-fourth 

 longer than wide, about twice as long as the prothorax, and, at the large 

 though moderately tumid humeri, fully one-fourth wider than the latter ; 

 sides subparallel, the apex almost semi-circularly rounded ; disk with coarse 

 deep finely and remotely punctate grooves, the intervals flat or very feebly 

 convex, but slightly wider than the grooves, each with a single series of small 

 but deep, moderately distant punctures, the second and third wider and with 

 the punctures broadly confused, the third nearly twice as wide as the grooves ; 

 setffi very minute and inconspicuous. Abdomen vevy sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures fine but becoming coarse toward the sides. Legs rather short and 

 robust, polished, sparsely but somewhat strongly punctured. Length 4.0 

 mm. ; width 2.0 mm. 



Georgia. 



The unique type is a male, and has the abdomen broadly and 

 feebly impressed in the middle toward base. It somewhat resem- 

 bles uinbilicata, but has the pronotal punctures denser and more 

 uneven, the second and third elytral intervals wide with the punc- 

 tures broadly confused, and the punctuation of the abdomen fine 

 and very sparse ; it also differs in its decidedly shorter beak and 



