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finely but deeply and abruptly striate ; intervals flat, fully twice as wide as 

 the grooves, each with a regular series of somewhat small but deep, rather 

 widely spaced punctures, the second and third a little wider but with the 

 series simply uneven ; setae minute and not conspicuous. Abdomen finely but 

 ileeply punctured, the punctures distinctly separated toward the middle but 

 becoming coarse and very dense toward the sides. Anterior coxae widely sepa- 

 rated. Length 3.0-3.5 mm. ; width 1.5-1.7 mm. 



North Carolina ; Indiana ; Missouri. 



The peculiar form of the prothorax will always render this species 

 easily identifiable. The type is a female from North Carolina. I 

 have before me a single specimen from each of the above localities, 

 the interstitial punctures being- smaller in the Indiana female than 

 in either of the other two. 



31 Baris flltilis n. sp. — Obloug-oval, convex, highly polished, black 

 and with a strong aeneous-metallic lustre. Head finely but distinctly, not 

 very sparsely punctured, the beak moderately coarsely and closely so, densely 

 at the sides, moderately robust and arcuate, short, about two-thirds as long as 

 the prothorax ; antennae moderate, the club rather small. ProMora.r two-fifths 

 wider than long, the sides just visibly convergent and feebly arcuate in basal 

 three-fourths, then strongly rounded, thence strongly convergent and feebly 

 sinuate, faintly constricted to the apex, which is transversely truncate ; base 

 three times as wide as the head, straight, subtransverse, the median lobe rather 

 large and prominent, rounded ; disk with a more or less distinct impunctate 

 median line ; punctures rather coarse, very deep and moderately dense ; some- 

 times crowded almost throughout, two-thirds as wide as the scutellum. Scu- 

 tellum small, subquadrate. Elytra ample, two-fifths longer than wide, quite 

 distinctly more than twice as long as the prothorax, and, at the small tumid 

 humeri, slightly wider than the latter ; sides behind the humeri subparallel ; 

 apex very broadly, evenly rounded ; disk with moderately coarse, very deep, 

 abrupt and finely but distinctly punctured grooves ; intervals flat, about twice 

 as wide as the grooves, each with a single somewhat uneven line of coarse, 

 very approximate and slightly rugulose piinctures, rather confused on the 

 third, those of the fourth and fifth fully two-thirds as wide as the correspond- 

 ing intervals ; setae small, suberect and forming quite distinct rows by longi- 

 tudinal oblique illumination. Abdomen rather coarsely deeply and closely 

 punctured toward the sides, more sparsely so in the middle of the first seg- 

 ment. Legs short, distinctly but not very densely punctured : tibiae not promi- 

 nent externally ; claws moderate. Length 2.8-3.6 mm; width 1.25-1.65 mm. 



California (Sta. Barbara, Riverside and San Diego). 



The prosternum in the type is scarcely at all impressed, the coxae 

 widely separated, the process being but slightly narrower than their 

 acetabula. 



Mr. H. C. Fall informs me that he has beaten this species from 

 willows. 



