Brazilian Baring 29 



the slopes of the medial carination of each interval; on the under surface the 

 scales are of exactly the same color, narrowly separated and unevenly sparser or 

 more condensed; beak long, three-sevenths as long as the body, very feebly 

 arcuate, thick, subcylindric, densely punctured and feebly squamulose basally, 

 nude and finely, sparsely punctate distally; antenna; rather thick, a little behind 

 the middle, the first four funicular joints equal in length and slightly elongate, 

 the outer joints coronate with thick pale setae, the club rather small, gradually 

 pointed; prothorax only just visibly wider than long, the converging sides dis- 

 tinctly and very evenly arcuate from base to the feeble apical constriction, the 

 apex unevenly arcuate and less than half the basal width; base deeply bisinuate, 

 the lobe rounded, the median line with a broad flat nude carina, which is narrower 

 anteriad and abbreviated just behind the middle, the surface thence somewhat 

 concave to the base; punctures coarse, coalescent in grooves, which are mostly 

 oblique; elytra nearly a third longer than wide and a third wider than the pro- 

 thorax, oval, the striae unequally coarse to rather fine longitudinally; intervals 

 all obtusely but conspicuously carinate, the carinae irregular in thickness; humeri 

 broadly exposed, rather narrowly rounded; abdomen feebly concave and more 

 sparsely and finely squamulose basally. Length ( 9) 13.7 mm.; width 8.3 mm. 

 Brazil (Chapada). January. One specimen. 



This species is by far the largest Baride in my collection, and 

 differs from the type of the genus, described under the name pennatus 

 by Mr. Pascoe, in its more narrowly oval form of body, less trans- 

 verse prothorax, less posterior and much more uneven transverse 

 elytral fasciae and in the presence of a large apical area of dense 

 scales. Pennatus was described from a male specimen, said to have 

 been taken at Morro Velho, Brazil. 



Syprestia n. gen. 



This genus is related to Eury pages in the separation of the 

 anterior coxae, and in having the anterior legs of the male more 

 elongate and with the anterior tarsi more dilated and more con- 

 spicuously fringed at the sides in that sex, but the body is 

 much smaller in size and more rhomboidal in outline, the prothorax 

 shorter and more inflated basally, the beak more slender and much 

 more arcuate and the antennal funicle is of quite different structure, 

 the second joint here being greatly elongate and very much longer 

 than the first. The pronotum is gibbous when viewed in profile 

 and not simply and feebly convex as it is in Eurypages. As in 

 Lydamis, the large and feeble concavity at the base of the abdomen 

 is virtually similar in the sexes. The species are doubtless rather 

 numerous, the five at hand being distinguishable as follows: 



Antennal club oval, gradually and finely pointed; elytral sculpture finer 2 



Antennal club notably narrower and much more elongate; elytral sculpture very 



coarse 4 



2 — Body larger and stouter; abdomen glabrous but not impressed in more than 

 median third at base. Black, the antennae piceous; vestiture of stout linear 

 scales close on the pronotum, broadly yellowish at the sides, with a fulvous 

 basal spot, fulvous medially, whiter on the median line basally and with a 



