Brazilian Baring 13 



Venezuela; all my species are Brazilian, but the genus also occurs 

 in Central America in such species as sexguttatus and niveipictus, 

 of Champion. The species at hand may be defined as follows: 



Elytra with a few isolated spots of dense whitish squamules 2 



Elytra with two minute subapical and two basal white spots and also an anterior 

 narrow diffused fascia 3 



Elytra with scattered white squamules suturad, a short external antemedial 

 fascia and a posterior lineate discal spot 4 



Elytra with uniform vestiture or at least without distinctly defined clusters of 

 scales c 



2 — Body suboval, convex, deep black, with some scattered squamules near the 

 scutellum and, on each elytron, a small sharply defined dense white area 

 beyond the median line at basal third and another nearer the line and behind 

 apical third; pronotum with a loose fine median line and apical lateral spot 

 of white squamules and a dense sublateral line from the middle to the base; 

 beak rather stout, feebly arcuate and slightly tapering, but little longer 

 than the prothorax, sculptured; antennae far beyond the middle, black, the 

 club narrowly oval, as long as the preceding five joints; prothorax a fifth 

 wider than long, the sides feebly converging and broadly, evenly arcuate 

 from base to the apical constriction; surface opaculate, rather finely, very 

 densely, punctate; scutellum parabolic, scarcely as wide as long; elytra 

 evenly, somewhat acutely oval, two-fifths wider than the prothorax, a third 

 longer than wide; stria? deep; intervals flat, finely, closely and asperulately 

 punctate, the humeral intervals carinulate as usual; under surface closely 

 punctate, with fine sparse squamules, dense at the sides of the prosternum 

 and on the met-episterna. Length (9) 2.1 mm.; width 0.9 mm. Brazil 

 (Santarem). One example tetraspilotus n. sp. 



Body more narrowly suboval, convex, piceous; elytra with a few fine scattered 

 squamules toward the suture at basal third, a fine denser point just within 

 the lateral carinule and another in the same line at the margin, the discal 

 spot near apical fourth composed of one or two short lines along the intervals; 

 pronotum with very imperfect median and sublateral lines of fine sparse 

 squamules, distinct only basally; under surface with dense whitish scales 

 along the apex of the prosternum, prolonged along the coxae, the met-episterna 

 only loosely clothed; beak stout, curved, barely as long as the head and 

 prothorax, the antennae far beyond the middle, the club shorter than in the 

 preceding; prothorax a fourth wider than long, the sides less arcuate, con- 

 verging at base, the apical constriction deep; punctures dense; elytra 

 scarcely a third wider than the prothorax, two-fifths longer than wide, 

 narrowly oval, the humeri slightly prominent; striae coarse, deep; intervals 

 rather narrow, shining, finely, sparsely and asperulately punctate. Length 

 Co 71 9) 1. 65-1. 75 mm.; width 0.7 mm. Brazil (Chapada — forest). Seven 

 specimens novellus n. sp. 



3 — Anterior fascia almost completely obsolete; prothorax smaller. Body moder- 

 ately narrow, convex, deep black, the legs rufous; posterior dense spot of 

 white scales at the elytral margin near the apex and having a short narrow 

 anterior prolongation; excepting some white maculation at the base, the 

 remainder of the disk has sparse even hair-like squamules, the fascia at 

 basal third barely traceable, except in a distinct denser point on the margin; 

 prothorax with diffused sparse whitish squamules, the inferior flank clothed 

 rather densely with larger white scales, having an oblong denuded central 

 spot; beak thick, as long as the head and prothorax; antennal club small, 

 narrow; prothorax but little wider than long, parallel, rounding beyond the 

 middle to the feeble constriction; punctures dense; elytra oval, narrowly 



