Brazilian Baring 3 01 



stria finer, with the punctures narrower and sublineiform, the punctures of 

 the interstitial series smaller, similarly confused on the third; abdomen 

 more finely and sparsely punctate. Length 5.0 mm.; width 1.9 mm. Brazil 

 (Chapada). November. One female specimen amputatus n. sp. 



The extremely short beak will render the identification of both 

 these species very easy. 



Parasomenes n. gen. 



The body in this genus is much smaller than in the preceding 

 and differs in many structural characters. The beak is not quite 

 so short or thick, more strongly arcuate, not compressed, more 

 finely and sparsely punctate, and is separated by a very obtuse 

 shallow reentrant angle; antennas short, slightly ultra-median, 

 with coarse and deep, oblique scrobes, the first funicular joint 

 longer than the next two, the club as long as the four preceding 

 joints, oval, with deep sutures, the first segment less than half the 

 mass. The flat prosternum separates the coxa by a little less than 

 their own width. The legs are rather short but of the usual type, 

 the third tarsal joint very much shorter than in the preceding and 

 normally bilobed, the claw-joint shorter and very much more 

 slender. The prothorax is broadly and feebly subtubulate at tip, 

 the base with a very short and gradual rounded median lobe, the 

 scutellum subsimilar, being much narrower than long and free and 

 the elytra with moderate striae, which are only feebly and indefi- 

 nitely punctate and gradually very fine posteriorly. The met- 

 episterna are not glabrous, coarsely and closely punctate as in the 

 preceding, but are narrower and plentifully squamulose, the squam- 

 ules fine and not very dense or closely decumbent, the rest of the 

 surface glabrous. The type is as follows: 



Parasomenes brevirostris n. sp. — Oblong, parallel, rather convex and shining, 

 deep black throughout and glabrous, except as mentioned above; beak four-fifths 

 as long as the prothorax, which, in lateral profile, is only very feebly convex, 

 short, two-fifths wider than long, the sides parallel and straight in three-fifths, 

 thence broadly rounded and oblique to the truncate and subtubulate apex, which 

 is almost three-fifths as wide as the base; punctures fine and sparse, notably 

 stronger and rather close at the sides, the median smooth line entire, broader 

 centrally; elytra oblong, a third longer than wide, the sides parallel and feebly 

 arcuate, the apex rapidly and very obtusely rounded, very slightly wider than 

 the prothorax and between two and three times as long, the humeri only slightly 

 tumid; stria at about basal third a third or fourth as wide as the intervals, 

 which have single uneven series of very fine, well separated punctures, the general 

 surface feebly alutaceous; under surface finely, loosely punctate, the abdomen 

 more minutely and sparsely so. Length 3.2 mm.; width 1.35 mm. Brazil 

 (Chapada). December. One specimen. 



In the type, the first abdominal segment has the punctures 

 stronger and less sparse than the rest of the surface, but does not 

 seem to be at all impressed, so that it is probably female. 



