Goleopterological Notices, IV. 659 



1 ZaglyptllS Striatlis Lee. — Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 237. 



Oval, convex, dark red-brown, polished, the upper surface with a 

 few fulvous prostrate hairs in addition to the long stift" seta3, more 

 especially noticeable on the prothorax and toward the base of the 

 beak. Beak quite distinctly longer than the head and prothorax, 

 rather strongly, longitudinally sulcato, slightly punctate toward 

 base ; antenna I'ather slender, the basal joint of the funicle robust, 

 nearly as long as the next three, two to seven short, coarctate, sub- 

 equal in length and gradually slightly thicker, club moderate. Pro- 

 thorax conical, one-half wider than long, the sides feebly inflated 

 and distinctly arcuate at the middle; apex one-half as wide as the 

 base ; punctures distinct but not very dense. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra at base abruptly barely one-fourth wider than the prothorax, 

 about twice as long, not longer than wide ; sides broadly arcuate, 

 becoming parallel near the base; disk with just visibly impressed 

 series of rather coarse, deep, not very close-set punctures, the inter- 

 vals nearly flat and fully twice as wide as the strial punctures- 

 Length 1.4 mm.; width 0.8 mm. 



Pennsylvania and District of Columbia. The head is impunctate 

 but minutely, densely granulato-reticulate ; it is not separated from 

 the beak by a transver.se in)pression. This is the most minute 

 baride known within our faunal limits. 



2 ZaglyptUS sulcatum Lee— Proc. Am. PhU. Soc, XV, p. 237. 



Represented by the unique type almost similar in size to striatus. 

 Alabama (Mobile). 



OOMORPHIDIUS n. gen. 



It is necessary to separate Microcholus erasus and bjevicoUis of 

 LeConte as a very distinctly defined genus, forming a passage from 

 Stethobaris to Eisonyx, and differing radically from Microcholus in 

 its strongly convex body, tubulate prothorax, peculiarly modified 

 elytral striation, impressed prosternura and stout, strongly decus- 

 sate mandibles. In many of its most striking characters it resem- 

 bles Eisonyx, and in fact is so evidently allied to that genus as to 

 prove the feeble value of ungual structure in the present section of 

 Barini ; this is shown also below in the case of Barinus and Bari- 

 lepton, which are related in much the same way as Oomorphidius 

 and Eisonyx. 



