LeConte.] BARIXI. 311 



narrow scales. Protliorax scarcelj- wider than long, sides obliquely 

 rounded, feebly constricted at tip; disc densely punctured; scales hair-liivc, 

 directed transversely, dorsal line obsolete Elytra scarcely wider than the 

 protliorax, gradually narrowed from the humeri, tips conjointly rounded; 

 strite deep and wide, interspaces flat, densely punctured. Beneath covered 

 with oval scales; antennae and legs brown; prosternum as wide between 

 the coxae as in C. perscillus, emarginate in front of the mesosternum; side 

 pieces of metasternum wide; fifth ventral scarcely longer than the fourth. 

 Beak long, slender, curved, shining and sparsely pubescent, distinctly 

 punctured; second joint of funicle nearly as long as the first. Length 2.5 

 mm. ; .10 inch. 



Louisiana and Kansas, four specimens. The prosternum is broadly but 

 less deeply impressed; in the (^ the horns are very short ; in the $ the 

 prosternum is flattened, but not concave. 



9. C. capillatus, n. sp. 



Similar in size and form to 0. perscillus, but only thinl}^ clothed with 

 hair-like white scales on the upper surface, intermixed with oval scales on 

 the under surface. Beak as long as the head and protliorax, slender, 

 abruptly curved near the base, then nearly straight, shining, smooth, 

 sparsely punctured near the base, frontal constriction veiy feeble; head con- 

 vex, sparsely punctured. Protliorax wider than long, sides oblique, very 

 slightly rounded, tip feebly constricted ; disc densely punctured, scales 

 directed transversely; base bisinuate, scutellar lobe rather large, truncate. 

 Elytra somewhat wider than the protliorax, narrowed behind from the 

 humeri, separately (though very slightly so) rounded at the tips ; pygidiuni 

 not exposed; stria3 deep and broad, interspaces flat, densely punctured, 

 each with two rather regular rows of hair-like scales. Pros' ernum not 

 ^ery wide between the coxae, hind margin truncate in front of the meso- 

 sternum, not at all emarginate ; side pieces of metathorax wide ; fifth ven- 

 tral longer than the fourth; antennae with the first joint of the funicle 

 long and slender, second two-thirds as long, equal to the third and fourth 

 united. Length 3 mm.; .12 inch. 



(^. Prosternum broadly and feebly concave ; horns reduced to a small 

 slender cusp; ventral surface flattened, fifth segment as long as the third 

 and fourth united. 



9. Prosternum slightly convex, without horns; ventral surface convex, 

 fifth segment a little longer than the fourth. 



Texas, Belfrage, three specimens. 



10. C. picumnus. Cureulio pic. Herbst, Kafer, vii, 30; Tab. 99, f. 9; 

 Baridius pic. Say, Cure. 17; ed. Lee. i, 281; Centrinus oUvaceus Gyll., 

 Sell. Cure, iii, 763; Centrimis sutor Harris, Trans. Hartford Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. i, 81. 



Abundant throughout the Atlantic region. Rather broader, and more 

 regularly oval, densely clothed Avith narrow, ochreous scales, which are 

 broader and paler on the under surfiice. Beak long, slender, regularly and 



