Brazilian Baring 297 



Body nearly similar throughout, but a little less elongate, the vestiture similar, 

 except that the fine sparse squamules of the prosternum are replaced by 

 large, broadly linear, very dense scales; integuments shining, black, the 



* prothorax dark rufous; beak (cf) piceous, feebly arcuate, cylindric, finely, 

 rather closely punctulate, in great part sparsely squamulose at the sides, 

 only a little longer than the prothorax, the latter shorter, a fourth wider 

 than long, otherwise nearly similar, the apex four-sevenths as wide as the 

 base; punctures finer and still sparser throughout; elytra nearly similar 

 throughout but narrower; male abdomen strongly convex, finely, remotely 

 punctate and without distinct sexual modification; legs rather long and 

 slender. Length 2.7 mm.; width 1.15 mm. Brazil (Chapada). November. 

 One male example semitestacea n. sp. 



Although the unique types above described are of different sexes, 

 and from the same locality, I think that they represent distinct 

 species, because of the radical difference in prosternal vestiture, 

 this not being a character subject to sexual modification, so far as 

 I know. 



Pseudorancea n. gen. 



In this genus the body is more evenly oval, shining and still more 

 completely glabrous, and it also differs very much in the structure 

 of the beak and tarsi. The beak is very thick, strongly compressed 

 and barely at all arcuate, separated from the head by a deep reen- 

 trant angle, and with the flat sides sparsely punctate, though 

 opaculate, and limited above by longitudinal raised lines. Antennae 

 submedial, rather short, with coarse and deep scrobes, the first 

 funicular joint as long as the next three, the outer joints gradually 

 somewhat wider and compact, so that the moderate oval club, 

 with basal segment about half the mass, is rather gradual in forma- 

 tion. The prosternum is apparently feebly impressed and the coxee 

 very narrowly separated. The legs are short and the tibiae have 

 an arcuate outline distally; the tarsi are moderately thick, with 

 unusually elongate basal joint, the fourth small, extremely slender 

 and with small and rather approximate but free claws. The pro- 

 thorax is gradually but strongly tubulate at apex, with short and 

 feeble basal lobe, the scutellum small, free, subquadrate, narrowed 

 toward base and with a narrow canaliculation basally and the 

 elytra somewhat finely punctato-striate. The type is the following: 



Pseudorancea spissirostris n. sp. — Elongate-oval, convex, glabrous and shining, 

 black throughout; beak (d*) thick, but as long as the head and prothorax, finely 

 punctate and medially subcarinate above, very feebly arcuate; antenna? barely 

 beyond the middle, piceous; prothorax about as long as wide, the parallel sides 

 nearly straight in about basal half, very gradually and evenly rounding thence to 

 the tubulation, which is four-sevenths as wide as the base, the punctures mod- 

 erately small, deep, separated by fully three times their diameters, only a little 

 larger and less sparse at the sides, with an elongate vacant sublateral area and a 

 well defined smooth median line; elytra one-half longer than wide, elliptic, the 

 apex evenly and strongly rounded, only very little wider than the prothorax and 



