Brazilian Baring 3 6 3 



the first funicular joint as long as the next two or three, the outer 

 joints slightly enlarged, the club long, oval, densely pubescent, as 

 long as the preceding six joints and subevenly divided by deep 

 sutures. Prosternum sharply and deeply canalate, the coxae sepa- 

 rated by less than their own width. The legs are moderate and 

 normal, the femora mutic, finely punctate and with rather close 

 fine white squamules, the tibial spur well developed and the tarsal 

 claws strong and diverging, the claw- joint fully as long as the rest 

 of the tarsus. Prothorax not distinctly tubulate, but broadly 

 impressed throughout the width anteriorly, the basal lobe small, 

 short and truncate, the scutellum transverse, broadly angulate behind 

 and somewhat free, the elytra with extremely fine, subobsolete 

 striae, not exarate at apex and wholly without subapical umbones; 

 the p'ygidium is small, flat, transverse and strongly rounded at the 

 middle beneath. The type and only known species is the following: 



Stenohulpes perpolitus n. sp — Parallel, strongly convex, smooth, deep black 

 and highly polished, wholly glabrous above, each coarse puncture of the posterior 

 sterna with a narrow white squamule; beak ( 9 ) rather slender, even y cyhndric, 

 finely, sparsely punctate and shining, feebly, evenly arcuate and a little longer 

 than the head and prothorax; antenna? ferruginous; prothorax fully a fourth 

 wider than long, the parallel sides very feebly arcuate, rapidly rounding and 

 oblique between apical third and fourth, the apex almost three-fifths as wide as 

 the base; punctures obsolete, fine and loose but evident on the feeb y constricted 

 apical part, the inferior flanks fcosely and feebly subrugose; elytra three-sevenths 

 longer than wide, equal in width to the prothorax and three-fourths longer, the 

 parallel sides nearly straight, rounding from somewhat behind the middle, the 

 humeri only just visibly swollen; stria? subobsolete, extremely fine and barely 

 traceable but finely punctulate, the first stria stronger but shallow, punctulate; 

 abdomen convex, polished, glabrous and very minutely, sparsely punctate more 

 distinctly at the sides, the first suture distinct, only very feebly arcuate. Length 

 3.4 mm.; width 1.35 mm. Brazil (Santarem). One example. 



If I have correctly determined the sex of the type, the male must 

 have the eyes still larger and more approximate on the front. 



Sirabia n. gen. 

 The type of this genus approaches Madarellus in some respects, 

 such as the abbreviated form and strongly undulated elytra, but it 

 is not very closely allied. The integuments are glabrous, but in 

 great part conspicuously punctate. The beak is rather thick but 

 uncompressed, finely, evenly punctate and moderately arcuate, 

 separated by a shallow reentrant angle and with arcuate and bifid, 

 decussate mandibles; antennae medial, the first and second funicular 

 joints moderately elongate, the second the shorter, the others short, 

 glabrous, gradually more transverse distally, the club oblong, trun- 

 cate at base, ogival at apex, subequally divided by the sutures, 



