Brazilian Baring 3 j 7 



beak in the female type is very slender, nearly smooth, cylindric 

 and separated from the head by a feeble impression. Antennae 

 near basal third, moderate in length, the first funicular joint about 

 as long as the next three, the club stout, broadly oval, abrupt and 

 as long as the five preceding joints. The prosternum is nearly flat 

 and separates the coxae by rather evidently more than their own 

 width The legs are of normal structure, but are unusually slender, 

 the prothorax briefly but abruptly tubulate at apex, the base finely 

 beaded with the lobe very short, gradual and broadly arcuate, the 

 scutellum free, flat and quadrate but wider than long and glabrous, 

 and the elytra with narrow deep groove-like striae, which are 

 not definitely punctate. The type is as follows: 



Paratorcus quadrifer n. sp.-Parallel, slightly depressed, shining brownish- 

 testaceous in color throughout; squamules above slender and whitish, wanting 

 on the pronotum, except abruptly in lateral fifth or sixth, where they are fine 

 even and sparse; on the elytra they are coarser, closely aggregated along the 

 intervals basally, especially internally, also close on intervals 2-4 from just 

 behind the middle posteriorly, attaining the apex on the second and third, also 

 moderately close on the four or five outer intervals throughout, thus leaving a 

 large quadrate ante-median area wholly glabrous; beneath they are fine and 

 sparse but dense on the met-episterna; beak ( 9 ) very slender, nearly smooth 

 rather' strongly arcuate and longer than the head and prothorax, the latter no 

 quite as long as wide, the sides parallel and broadly arcuate, rather more distinctly 

 so beyond than behind the middle, the tubulate apex distinctly more than half 

 as wide as the base; punctures sparse and very minute, stronger and closer at 

 the sides; elytra three-fifths longer than wide, exactly equal in width to the 

 prothorax and three-fourths longer, the humeri obsolete; sides paralle and 

 straight, gradually arcuate and converging in posterior ha f to the obtusely 

 rounded apex; stria, fine; intervals broad, smooth in the glabrous areas; ab- 

 domen convex, finely, sparsely punctulate. Length 2.8 mm.; width 1.0 mm. 

 Brazil (Santarem). A single specimen. 



The chief generic features are the very slender and rather arcuate 

 beak, tubulate prothorax, somewhat depressed surface and widely 

 separated anterior coxae; it is probable that the species lives in 

 some rather confined situation in plants. 



lops n. gen. 

 In this rather remarkable genus the body is very slender with 

 slightly arcuate sides and convex and nearly glabrous shining 

 surface. The beak is short and somewhat stout, very feebly 

 arcuate and nearly smooth, separated from the convex head by a 

 feeble impression, the antennae submedial and slender, glabrous, the 

 first funicular joint swollen, pedunculate and as long as the next 

 four joints, the other joints all subquadrate, not at all increasing 

 in width, the club very narrowly oval, fully as long as the four 

 preceding joints, partially glabrous and with its basal segment one- 



