ColeojJteroIogical Notices, IV. 495 



California (Sonoma, Mendocino, Lal<e and Santa Craz Cos.). 



This species somewhat resembles terniestriata in outward form, 

 but is distinguishable at once by the coarse grooves and large inter- 

 stitial punctures of the elytra. The abdomen in the male is feebly 

 impressed in the middle toward base, the prosternum narrowly and 

 distinctly impressed, and the anterior coxse separated by rather more 

 than one-half their width. The usual fine transverse groove bor- 

 dering the anterior margin of the prosternum is quite distinct. The 

 legs are sometimes darker and rufo-piceous in color. The large 

 series of examples before me displays an unusual diversity in size 

 but is otherwise quite homogeneous. 



28 Baris sparsa Lee— Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1868, p. 364 (Bari- 

 dius); Proc. Am. Pliil. Soc, XV, p. 293. 



This is a small narrow species, dark rufo-piceous in color, polished, 

 with a feeble aeneous tinge and with dark rufo-testaceous legs. The 

 beak is rather slender, densely punctured, rather strongly arcuate, 

 subequal in length to the prothorax in the female, but only three- 

 fifths as long as the latter in the male. Prothorax rather elongate, 

 from one-fourth to one-third wider than long, subparallel and broadly 

 arcuate in basal two-thirds, then gradually convergent and straiglit 

 to the apex, the basal lobe rather prominent; disk with a narrow 

 but rather distinct subentire median line, the punctures deep strong 

 and somewhat coarse, moderately close in the original male type 

 and separated by nearly twice their widths, but rather closer in a 

 single female taken by me in northern California. Elytra with fine 

 but deep abrupt and impunctate striae, the intervals nearly three 

 times as wide as the grooves, perfectly flat, each with a single even 

 series of coarse but very feeble widely spaced punctures, the sette 

 minute and almost invisible. The prosternum is broadly, feebly 

 impressed and the anterior coxse separated by barely one-half of 

 their own width. Length 2.8 mm.; width 1.2 mm. 



The above is an outline of the typical sparsa from Oregon and 

 northern California, and care must be taken not to confound it with 

 ruhripes from the vicinity of San Francisco, which is a larger 

 species, with narrower and much more densely and strongly punc- 

 tate elytral intervals and denser pronotal punctures. 



Oregon — Cab. LeConte ; California (Hoopa Val, Humboldt Co.). 



29 Baris 1)riiniieipes n. sp.— Ohlong-oval, subparallel, convex, rather 

 stout, black tliroughout, the legs brownish-testaceous, the femora in great part 



