Brazilian Baring 3 6 5 



preceding six joints and with its basal segment not quite half the 

 length. The prosternum is evenly and feebly convex, deeply, 

 transversely constricted near the apex, with its hind lobe flat and 

 quadrate, attaining the mid-line through the middle coxae, the surface 

 therefore being continuous throughout, but the anterior coxae are 

 separated by only about half their width. The legs are moderate 

 and somewhat slender, the femora mutic, the tibial spur short and 

 the tarsi moderate, with rather short diverging claws. The pro- 

 thorax is not, or but very faintly, tubulate, the basal lobe peculiar, 

 being abrupt but extremely short and broadly truncate along the 

 large and ogival, densely squamose scutellum, the elytra strongly, 

 deeply and abruptly grooved, without umbones and with even 

 surface, and the pygidium is well developed, subvertical and not 

 transverse. There are two species as follows: 



Form evenly oval, convex, shining, deep black, the legs and tip of the beak 

 obscure rufous; upper surface glabrous, except the dense white scales of the 

 scutellum, which also are rather less dense at the sides of the pronotum, 

 the entire under surface densely clothed with white scales; beak (c?) thick, 

 rather strongly, evenly arcuate, punctured, not quite so long as the head 

 and prothorax, the antenna? bright rufous, or ( 9 ) barely longer, though 

 distinctly less thick and somewhat more shining, a little less strongly com- 

 pressed, the antenna a trifle less apical; prothorax nearly a third wider than 

 long, the sides slightly converging and feebly arcuate, gradually more 

 rounding beyond the middle, the apex more than half as wide as the base; 

 punctures rather strong and deep, separated by about their own diameters; 

 elytra obtusely oval, a fourth (d 1 ) to a sixth ( 9 ) longer than wide, distinctly 

 wider than the prothorax and less than twice as long; grooves coarse and 

 deep; intervals but little wider than the grooves, subequal at base; pygidium 

 moderately convex, larger and subcircular in the male, the latter without 

 trace of abdominal modification. Length 2.65-3.3 mm.; width 1.12-1.38 

 mm. Brazil (Chapada— forest). May and June. Seven specimens. Found 



on flowers scutellata n. sp. 



Form more oblong-oval, almost similar in sculpture, lustre, color and vestiture; 

 beak ( 9 ) more nearly as in the male of the preceding, but with the antenna; 

 just visibly less apical, stouter than in the female of scutellata, more strongly 

 compressed at the sides and less shining; prothorax more transverse, almost 

 one-half wider than long, with still broader apex and with more gradually 

 rounding and less oblique sides; anterior punctures slightly denser; elytra 

 more oblong-oval; obtuse at apex, similarly grooved but with the intervals 

 everywhere much wider than the grooves, similarly with minute and generally 

 confused punctures; pygidium as in the female of scutellata. Length 3.2 

 mm.; width 1.5 mm. Brazil (Chapada). May. Two specimens. 



obesella n. sp. 



Scutellata varies very much in the size of the body, but not much 

 otherwise; obesella is closely allied, but is apparently a different 



species. 



Anisorrhamphus Chmp. 



In outward form and habitus this genus resembles the preceding 

 to an extraordinary degree, being almost identical in outline, 



