Brazilian Barin/E kj 



Strial intervals flat, the two post-humeral on each elytron alone carinulate 



Stnal intervals feebly carinulate throughout "-, 



2— Body obtusely subrhomboid, convex, deep black, the legs not paler; surface 

 lustre rather shining where abraded; scales narrow, white in three thoracic 

 vittee, elsewhere brown; on the elytra the white scales, parted by the coarse 

 striae, form a transverse fascia at basai third from suture to the" sixth stria 

 which is broadly extended to base laterally and angularly to the scutellum 

 suturally, also a very broad anteriorly angulate fascia in apical two-fifths, 

 the scales of which became sparse toward apex; under surface with white 

 scales, dense on the prosternum, on the mesosternum proper, met-episterna, 

 hind margin of the metasternum and on most of the abdomen, the legs 

 distinctly but not densely squamose; beak as long as the head and prothorax 

 C9), shorter (cT), squamose and sculptured basally, moderately arcuate and 

 just visibly tapering; prothorax a third wider than long, the sides subparallel 

 and very slightly arcuate, rapidly, arcuately narrowing anteriorly to apex 

 which is more than half as wide as the base; punctures moderate, dense' 

 scutellum quadrate, with rounded angles, densely albido-squamose; elytra 

 one-half longer than wide, two-fifths wider than the prothorax and three 

 times as long; humeri shining and rounded but not laterally prominent; 

 striae rather coarse, deep; intervals closely punctate, the punctures concealed! 

 Length (J> 9 ) 3-3~3-9 mm.; width 1.5-1.8 mm. Brazil (Chapada). March 



and November funerea n 



Body as in funerea but smaller, the beak similar, but the antennal club is smaller 

 and more narrowly oval; prothorax shorter, more than one-half wider than 

 long, the sides more arcuate and gradually converging beyond about the 

 middle to the more distinct but shorter apical tubulation, which similarly 

 is much more than half as wide as the base; median loose white vitta nar- 

 rower; punctures dense; elytra nearly similar but less narrowed from the 

 humeri, the apex more obtuse; fascia at basal third involving only intervals 

 2-6 only the line on the sixth extending to base; apical two-fifths covered 

 uniformly with slender squamules, this area truncate anteriorly; striae very 

 coarse, deep, relatively much coarser than in funerea. Length (<?) 3.0 mm.; 

 width 1. 4-1. 45 mm. Brazil (Chapada). October and November. Two 



specimens curticollis n. sp. 



3— 1'orm more oval, subrhomboidal, convex, deep black; vestiture apparently 

 as in funerea, but in great part denuded in the type and almost wholly so 

 on the elytra; beak cylindric, barely as long as the head and prothorax, 

 moderately slender and evenly arcuate, punctulate basally but not densely; 

 antennae as in funerea; prothorax less transverse, only between a third and 

 fourth wider than long, the parallel sides evenly and much more strongly 

 arcuate, the apical constriction short but deep across the dorsal surface; 

 punctures rather small, extremely dense, the surface opaque, much more 

 convex than in either of the preceding, strongly arcuate in profile; scutellum 

 a little shorter, more rounded; elytra shorter, not quite one-half longer 

 than wide, fully two-fifths wider than the prothorax but less than two and 

 one-half times as long, the humeri straight and at 45° basally, not prominent 

 though rather narrowly rounded laterally; stria? rather fine but deep. 

 Length (9) 3.5 mm.; width 1.7 mm. Brazil (Santarem). One specimen. 



densicollis n. sp. 



The relatively unusual length of abdominal segments 3 and 4 is 

 much more apparent at the sides of the abdomen than along the 

 median line; sutures 2-4 are very coarse, deep and glabrous, finer 

 at the sides as usual in such cases. 



