Brazilian Barin^e 293 



trant angle; it is convex but longitudinally sculptured at the sides, 

 finely and sparsely punctured elsewhere, and the mandibles are 

 deeply bifid and decussate. The antennae are short, medial, the 

 scape short, extending scarcely more than half way to the eyes, 

 which are of normal form, the first funicular joint as long as the 

 next three, 2-7 transverse, closely compacted and gradually be- 

 coming about as wide as the club, which is thick, briefly oval, not 

 abrupt and subequally segmented by the sutures. Prosternum flat, 

 separating the coxae by about their own width, sloping anteriorly 

 to a large deep transverse apical fossa. Femora long, not inflated, 

 the tibiae much shorter, the prothorax briefly subtubulate at apex, 

 with the basal lobe very short, obtusely rounded and with a small 

 shallow apical sinuation and the scutellum small, free, fiat and 

 oblong, deeply and abruptly grooved. The type is as follows: 



Parafishonia setulosa n. sp. — Oblong-suboval, rather shining, black throughout, 

 the pronotum with long, somewhat thick and sparse erect setae, these being 

 almost similar on the elytra and rather widely spaced in single interstitial series; 

 under surface almost glabrous, the seta? fine, short and sparse; beak in the type 

 strongly arcuate, nearly as long as the head and prothorax, with a few fine bristling 

 setae basally; prothorax short, three-sevenths wider than long, the sides straight 

 and parallel, gradually rounding beyond the middle to the tubulation, which is 

 half as wide as the base; punctures small and remote, rather abruptly coarse 

 and longitudinally rugiform at the sides; elytra over a fourth longer than wide, 

 the sides strongly oblique, evenly and somewhat strongly arcuate to the narrowly 

 rounded apex, a fifth wider than the prothorax and rather more than twice as 

 long; grooves very deep, not obviously punctured and nearly half as wide as 

 the intervals, the well spaced punctures of the single series being notably small 

 in size; abdomen convex, minutely and remotely punctate, the first suture 

 obsolete medially. Length 3.0 mm.; width 1.4 mm. Brazil (Chapada). March. 

 One specimen. 



The sex of the type is probably female, because of the absence 

 of abdominal impression. 



Nestrada n. gen. 



This genus, although apparently associable otherwise, differs 

 from any of the preceding in having erect slender prosternal spines 

 in the male. The body is stout, oblong-suboval and strongly 

 convex, closely and conspicuously sculptured, the pronotum longi- 

 tudinally strigilate as in Centrinites, with which it is doubtless 

 phylogenetically allied. The vestiture is fine, sparse and incon- 

 spicuous above, but in the form of broader, closer and white scales 

 beneath, as a rule. The beak is long, rather slender, distinctly and 

 evenly arcuate, nearly smooth ( 9 ), or distinctly sculptured though 

 otherwise not differing much, except in being a little less slender 

 (o 71 ), separated from the head by an evident sulcus; antennae 

 submedial in both sexes, rather slender, the scape not extending 

 quite to the eye, the first funicular joint as long as the next two, 



