258 CURCULIOK^ID^. 



[LeConte.. 



California, Nevada, and Colorado. In the specimens I have seen, the 

 funicle of the antennae is less slender than in the two preceding species; 

 the club is oval-acuminate, small, and feebly annulated. The legs are much 

 less coarsely punctured than in the other two species. 



COELOSTERNUS Sch. 



In order to avoid unnecessary multiplication of genera in a series as yet 

 so imperfectly systematized, I refer to this genus a single species from 

 Lower California, which is allied to Zascelis, but has the beak stouter 

 and less elongated, the funicle of the antennse stouter, the club small, 

 oval-acuminate, and annulated. The legs are stouter, the thighs armed 

 Avith an acute tooth, the tibine compressed, not serrate, furnished on the 

 outer margin with a row of stitf bristles from the middle to the tip, and 

 and rather stronglj^ uuguiculate at the inner apical angle. The second 

 ventral segment is a little longer than the third, but not very obviously 

 so. 



1. C. hispidulus, n. sp. 



Elongate, black, clothed with short, erect brown hairs; head and beak 

 densely punctured, the latter feebly carinate towards the base. Protho- 

 rax a little longer than wide, broadly and regularly rounded on the 

 sides, more narrowed in front than at base, disc rather flattened, coarsely 

 and densely punctured, with an obsolete smooth dorsal line. Elytra 

 elongate-oval, a little wider than the prothorax, strias wide, irregularly 

 coarsely punctured, four inner interspaces on each narrow, elevated, the 

 others indistinct. Body beneath and legs very coarsely punctured. 

 Length 5.5 mm.; .215 inch. 



One specimen. Cape San Lucas, Mr. Xantus. A little more elongate 

 tlian Zascelis irrorata, and quite easily I'ecognized by the characters above 

 given. The ej^es are widely separated, and in repose are almost con- 

 cealed. 



BAROPSIS n.g. 



The single species for which I propose this generic name, agrees with 

 tlie two preceding genera in most characters, but differs essentially in the 

 first ventral suture being more distinctly sinuate, and nearly obliterated 

 at the middle, and the second ventral segment as long as the two follow- 

 ing united. The beak is nearly as stout as in Tyloderma, and the eyes 

 are approximate, above ; the funicle of the antennae is slender, 7-jointed, the 

 second joint as long as the first; the following are shorter, but not much 

 thickened ; club small, oval-acuminate, annulated. Legs not very stout, 

 thighs feebly clavate, armed with a small acute tooth ; tibiae moderately com- 

 pressed, not as wide as in the two preceding genera, not toothed, terminal 

 hook small; there is a fringe of hair on the outer margin towards the tip, 

 as in Ccelosternus. 



The general appearance is that of Tyloderma, but the sculpture resem- 

 bles that of several species of Baris. It is closely related to the Mexican 



