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piceous ; lustre throughout strongly shining. Head minutely, moderately 

 closely punctate, the beak more strongly, densely so, rugulose at the sides, 

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

 the club large, robust, ovoidal, its basal joint polished and sparsely setose. 

 Prothorax large, scarcely one-fourth wider than long ; sides broadly, evenly 

 arcuate and convergent anteriorly, becoming nearly parallel in more than basal 

 half; base three and one-half times as wide as the head, oblique and nearly 

 straight from the scutellum to the basal angles, the median lobe very small 

 and feebly developed ; disk rather feebly convex, finely, densely, deeply punc- 

 tate, without trace of median impunctate line, the punctures rather less than 

 one-third as wide as the scutellum and separated by scarcely their own diame- 

 ters. Scutellum very feebly impressed, subquadrate, but slightly wider than 

 long. Elytra scarcely more than oue-third louger than wide, quite distinctly 

 less than twice as long as the prothorax, and, at the moderately tumid humeri, 

 a little wider than the latter ; sides subparallel ; apex broadly, rather abruptly 

 rounded; disk with rather narrow but very deep grooves, which are not dis- 

 tinctly punctate or crenulate, the edges slightly obtuse ; intervals polished, 

 nearly flat, each with a single series of coarse strong moderately approximate 

 and somewhat uneven punctures, rather smaller and more or less confused on 

 the second, third and fifth ; setae very small and scarcely observable. Abdomen 

 rather finely but strongly, moderately closely punctate. Legs moderate, 

 feebly, sparsely punctate, the tibiae straight along the external edge ; tarsal 

 claws rather small. Length 4.8 mm. ; width 2.3 mm. 



California. 



The single specimen is a male, and has the abdomen somewhat 

 narrowly and feebly impressed in the middle near the base. The 

 prosternum is very feebly impressed, and the coxae separated by 

 slightly less than one-half of their own width. The punctures of 

 the prothorax are relatively finer than in any other form known to 

 me, and the species is quite distinct in facies. 



30 Baris deformis n. sp. — Oblong-oval, somewhat depressed above, 

 black throughout, polished, without aeneous lustre. Head obsoletely, the beak 

 finely, rather strongly but not densely punctate, the latter ratlier robust, 

 strongly arcuate, quite distinctly shorter than the prothorax ; antennae moder- 

 ate. Prothorax short and strongly transverse, one-half wider than long, the 

 sides rather strongly convergent and broadly distinctly sinuate in basal two- 

 thirds, then rather broadly rounded, thence more convergent and nearly 

 straight to the apex ; base transverse and straight, the median lobe pro- 

 nounced ; disk without trace of median line, rather finely, very deeply and 

 extremely densely punctate throughout. Scutellum moderate, subquadrate, 

 strongly impressed along the middle. Elytra long, fully one-third longer than 

 wide and very distinctly more tlian twice as long as the prothorax, at the 

 small and moderately tumid liumeri very slightly wider than the latter; sides 

 nearly straight and distinctly convergent behind the liumeri, the apex almost 

 semi-circularly rounded, with the usual broad sutural notch ; disk rather 



