498 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



32 Baris incoiispiciia n. sp. — Oblong-oval, not very robust, the upper 

 surface lather feelily convex, black and polished throughout, the legs some- 

 what piceous. Head very minutely, obsoletely jiunctured, the beak deeply 

 and closely so, strongly arcuate, four-fifths as long as the protborax ; anteniise 

 rather long, the club large, abrupt, compressed, with the basal joint sparsely 

 setose and polished. Prothorax two-fifths wider thau long ; sides very feebly 

 convergent and slightly arcuate from the base to apical sixth or seventh, then 

 strongly convergent and feebly sinuate for the \'tirj short distance to the apex, 

 which is transversely truncate and unusually wide ; base but slightly more 

 than twice as wide as the head, oblique and straight from the median lobe, 

 which is small but distinct, rounded ; disk not very coarsely but deeply and 

 densely punctate, without impunctate line, the punctures nearly one-half as 

 wide as the scutellura and separated by one-half to two-thirds their own di- 

 ameters. Scutellum subquadrate, not distinctly impressed. Ehjlra nearly one- 

 half longer than wide, slightly more than twice as long as the prothorax, and, 

 at the small and moderately prominent humeri, slightly wider than the latter : 

 sides parallel, nearly straight ; apex broadly but evenly rounded ; disk with 

 rather narrow but deep, abi-upt, finely, obsoletely punctured grooves, the in- 

 tervals flat, about twice as wide as the grooves, each with a single even series 

 of small feeble and not very close-set punctures ; setae veiy small and incon- 

 spicuous. Abdomen finely, rather feebly and sparsely punctate. Legs rather 

 slender, feebly, sparsely punctate, the tibise straight; tarsal claws moderate. 

 Length 3.2 mm. ; width 1.3 mm. ( 9 )• 



Colorado. 



lu some respects this small species resembles aperta ; it differs in 

 its radically different shape of the prothorax, slightly smaller and 

 denser pronotal punctuation, and less minute and distant interstitial 

 punctures of the elytra; also in its more depressed form and rather 

 shorter beak. 



The prosternum is feebly but distinctly impressed and separates 

 the coxffi by fully one-half of their own width. 



33 Baris confinis Lee— Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil. 1868, p. 362 (Bari- 

 dius) ; Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 293. 



A small and very abundant species, easily distinguishable by the 

 rather short, strongly, moderately coarsely and somewhat sparsely 

 punctured pronotum, the rather wide, flat, somewhat finely distinctly 

 and decidedly remotely punctured elytral intervals, with the punc- 

 tures forming an even single series on each, and by the finely, 

 sparsely punctured abdomen. I have before me ample series from 

 Indiana and Florida (Key West), which agree very well, the differ- 

 ence being slight, apparently racial in nature and not easily expres- 

 sible in language. Length 2.8-3.4 mm. ; width 1.3-1.6 mm. 



