208 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



4 — Body rhomboid-suboval, convex, black, polished; elytra with a single spot 

 covering the base of the second and third intervals, all the dense scales 

 beneath and above ochreous in color; beak, as usual, separated from the 

 head by an obtuse reentrant angle, evenly and moderately arcuate, as long 

 as the head and prothorax (o 71 ), a little longer (9); antennae slender, pale 

 brown; prothorax a third wider than long, the sides converging throughout, 

 evenly and rather strongly arcuate, not becoming quite parallel at base; 

 discal punctures fine and sparse but distinct; elytra a third to two-fifths 

 longer than wide, two and one-half times longer than the prothorax, the 

 sides moderately oblique and only slightly arcuate, the apex broadly, obtusely 

 rounded; grooves abrupt and deep, nearly smooth, scarcely more than a 

 fourth as wide as the wide smooth flat intervals; suture not at allsquamulose; 

 surface feebly undulated. Length 6.8-7.0 mm.; width 3.5-3.6 mm. Brazil 

 (Rio de Janeiro). October. Two specimens. [Baris squamipes Germ.] 



squamipes Germ. 



Body almost similar in sculpture, coloration and squamosity, except that the 

 elytra have each a distinct and separate spot at the base of the second and 

 of the third interval, the spots not coalescent as in the preceding; beak (d") 

 longer and less thick, slightly longer than the head and prothorax, the upper 

 surface less arcuate in profile and the antennae distinctly less apical; pro- 

 thorax similar in every way, except that the converging sides are sensibly 

 less arcuate; elytra shorter than in the male of the preceding, though similarly 

 much more than twice as long as the prothorax, the sides also very moder- 

 ately oblique, but more arcuate, the apex more obtuse, the general outline 

 less attenuated or cuneate from base to apex; basal abdominal impression 

 with shorter, sparser and less conspicuous squamuliform hairs. Length 6.25 

 mm.; width 3.2 mm. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). October. One specimen. 



campanulata n. sp. 



Body smaller and more briefly suboval, black, polished, the vestiture disposed in 

 very nearly the same way as in squamipes, but nearly white, not ochreous- 

 yellow, and having in addition a few scales on the first interval behind the 

 scutellum in about basal third, and a small cluster at the base of the fifth; 

 beak (d") as in squamipes but slightly less thick and longer, a fourth longer 

 than the head and prothorax, the antennae near three-fifths, slender, rufous 

 and with still smaller club; prothorax almost similar in every way, though a 

 little shorter; scutellum subsimilar but only a little wider than long; elytra 

 scarcely a third longer than wide, more evenly parabolic and with less 

 prominent humeri, otherwise subsimilar; under surface and legs nearly 

 similar, except that the hind femora have no trace of inferior fringe in the 

 male and that the squamules of the abdominal impression are less finely 

 hair-like and less herissate. Length 5.5-6.0 mm.; width 3.0-3.28 mm. 

 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). November. Two specimens lateralis n. sp. 



5 — Form rhombic-suboval, black, polished, the scales pale yellow; upper surface 

 glabrous, excepting a loose area at the sides of the pronotum apically and a 

 single cluster involving the bases of the second and third strial intervals; 

 beak (d") as in squamipes, but not quite so thick and longer, nearly as in 

 lateralis, the antennae at four-sevenths, slender, rufous, the club narrower 

 than in squamipes and slender, with its basal segment longer than wide and 

 evenly obconic; prothorax not quite a third wider than long, the converging 

 sides almost straight to about the middle, there gradually and feebly rounding 

 to the feeble sinuses at the sides of the apex, the latter much less than half as 

 wide as the base and with a feeble median sinus; basal lobe not rounded as 

 in the preceding species, but with sinuate apex; surface with the minute 

 sparse punctures somewhat more distinct; scutellum more strongly obtrape- 

 zoidal, finely punctulate basally in nearly the same way; elytra as in squam- 



