Brazilian Barin^e 195 



Parasaldius n. gen. 



The body here is small in size, oval or subrhombic-oval, convex 

 and only moderately shining, the beak long, strongly arcuate, 

 separated from the head by a rather deep reentrant angle, the 

 mandibles prominent when closed, denticulate and emarginate 

 within. Antennse more or less behind the middle, the first funicular 

 joint as long as the next three, the second usually more than twice 

 as long as wide, the seventh not much wider, the club moderate 

 and elongate-oval. The anterior coxae are separated by about half 

 their width, the prosternum in the male with two very slender, 

 and feebly oblique processes, notably long as a rule and recurved 

 slightly at tip. The femora are slender, not at all inflated and 

 mutic, the claws well developed, free and divergent. The pro- 

 thorax is gradually tubulate at apex, the vestiture sparse and un- 

 even. The six species before me may be known as follows: 



Pronotum feebly and subevenly convex, as seen in lateral profile 2 



Pronotum strongly convex, as viewed in profile 4 



2 — Pronotum strongly punctate 3 



Pronotum very finely, remotely and inconspicuously sculptured 5 



3 — Body oval or faintly subrhombic, deep black throughout, the fine scanty 

 squamules everywhere white, forming a narrow and very loose vitta near 

 each side of the prothorax; on the elytra they are sparse but distinct along 

 the entire base, closer at the scutellum, and also form a very loose, ante- 

 riorly pointed chevron near the middle and a slender line on the first inter- 

 val between the scutellum and chevron; under surface rather strongly but 

 sparsely punctate, each puncture with a slender white squamule, equally 

 sparse throughout the sterna and legs, wanting throughout the prosternum 

 and last three ventral segments; beak slender, strongly, evenly arcuate and 

 fully three-fourths as long as the body, distinctly punctured; antennse very 

 slender, piceous; prothorax barely more than a fourth wider than long, the 

 sides moderately converging and evenly arcuate from base to tubulation, 

 which is half as wide as the base ( 9 ) or less (cf); punctures rather coarse 

 but separated, a little less coarse medially, where the smooth flat entire median 

 line is well defined, the basal lobe gradual, obtusely cuspidiform; scutellum 

 moderate, quadrate; elytra a fourth longer than wide, parabolic, but with the 

 apex obtuse toward the suture, the humeri not prominent, broadly rounded; 

 striae groove-like, deep, half to third as wide as the flat intervals, which are 

 loosely and coarsely punctured in even or uneven lines; abdomen strongly 

 convex and very shining, subglabrous, not at all modified in the male, the 

 prosternal processes long and very slender, usually deflexed at tip. Length 

 3.5-3.8 mm.; width 1. 7-1 .9 mm. Brazil (Para and Santarem). Five speci- 

 mens sedulus n. sp. 



Body throughout in color, sculpture and vestiture nearly as in the preceding but 

 larger and rather more elongate; head a little larger; beak much longer, 

 similarly strongly arcuate and distinctly sculptured, somewhat more than 

 three-fourths as long as the more elongate body; antennae slender, piceous; 

 prothorax and elytra nearly similar, the median chevron of the latter com- 

 posed of shorter, sparser and more unevenly scattered squamules; under 

 surface and abdomen nearly similar, the legs, however, much longer; pro- 

 sternal spines of the male a little more oblique and slender, straight and not 



