Brazilian Barin/E 9 



usual outline; striae very fine, with distinct remote punctures, the flat inter- 

 vals very finely, rather sparsely punctulate; apical and subapical carination 

 somewhat strong, the lateral feeble. Length ( 9 ) 7.2 mm.; width 3.2 mm. 



Ecuador (Balzapamba), — R. Haensch ecuadoricus n. sp 



5— Form narrowly oblong-oval, unusually convex and shining, deep black; head 

 and pronotum with fulvous squamules, with a small white fleck on the latter 

 antero-laterally and also at the apex and base of a glabrous median line 

 dividing the fulvous pubescence: elytra with the usual white tessellation, 

 but with a very large area from behind the middle to the base devoid of 

 spots and clothed uniformly with fulvous squamules; sterna of the hind 

 body densely albido-squamulose, the rest of the under surface almost bare; 

 femora squamulose in a suffused ring beyond the middle and also at apex; 

 beak short, arcuate, thick, cylindric and finely punctured; first funicular 

 joint as long as the next three and much thicker; prothorax a fourth wider 

 than long, the sides feebly converging from the base, rounded medially, 

 oblique and subsinuous anteriorly; surface convex, very finely punctate, 

 impunctate where stated above; scutellum shining, minutely punctulate, 

 slightly wider than long, parallel, truncate at tip; elytra as usual in form 

 but more convex and only a third wider than the prothorax, the stria? fine, 

 with evident punctures; intervals feebly carinate sublaterally, more strongly 

 toward apex. Length (d" 9) 4-2-4-7 mm-; width 1. 75-2.1 mm. Southern 

 Brazil (Entre Rios) parvus n. sp. 



In this genus sexual differences are very slight, the abdomen 

 not materially modified at base in the male and the beak very 

 slightly longer in the female. The prosternum is broadly, abruptly 

 and deeply sulcate before the coxae. 



The name of the Central American species identified by Mr. 

 Champion as irroratus is properly marmoratus Dej., it does not 

 resemble the true irroratus very closely. 



Conophoria n. gen. 



A number of species now recorded under Peridinetus, differ from 

 that genus so profoundly in general habitus, due to the conical form 

 of the prothorax and the scheme of ornamentation, that generic 

 separation would seem to be advisable. Besides the type, distincta 

 Pasc, cretacea Pasc, (luctuosa Chev.), and trifasciata, melastomce 

 and cana of Champion, are also to be included among the species 

 so far described. An example of cana, sent me by Mr. Champion, 

 differs so much from the typical cana as described and figured in 

 the " Biologia," that I am disposed to regard it as at least varietally 

 distinct and would propose for it the name C. cana ssp. dispersa 

 (nov.). It. is from the same locality, Chiriqui, but the vestiture of 

 fine and whitish, uniformly distributed squamules, is distinctly 

 sparser and less conspicuous, though arranged very much in the 

 same way; the minute hair-like scales are in fact so sparse, that 

 there is no trace of abrupt demarcation in the median thoracic 

 line, although the posterior denuded elytral areas are tolerably 



