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Sindesus dispersus n. sp.-Broad, convex, obscure pice o-rufous ^ color the 



legs and beak blacker; upper surface with large and rounded, closely decumbent 

 yellowish scales, evident though sparse toward the pronotal sides, closer medio- 

 basalTv and scattered over the surface of the elytra, each occupying a coarse 

 punclure the scaL nearly similar in form and distribution beneath but dense 

 on the presternum behind the suture and at the anterior limits of the meta- 

 sternum everywhere mingled with very small whitish squamules; beak ( 9 ) 

 ully half as long as the body, finely, sparsely punctate, gradually more strongly 

 and densely toward base and continuously over the head; antennae rufous the 

 shaft with a few long pale squamules distally; prothorax about twice as wide as 

 tone the sides strongly arcuate, becoming strongly oblique beyond the middle 

 much wider at somewhat behind the middle than at base; tabulation a third the 

 maximum width; punctures rather coarse and separated by barely half their 

 diameters throughout, with a short central impunctate space; scute lum black, 

 elytrn a fourth longer than wide, at the rounded humeri distinctly wider than he 

 prothorax, about twice as long, the sides evenly oblique and straight from the 

 humeri to the broadly rounded apex; stria, very coarse deep, somewhat impressed, 

 the intervals feebly convex, very coarsely, closely and confusedly punctate and 

 rugose; under surface with moderately coarse separated punctures, the propleura 

 more coarsely punctato-rugose. Length 6.7 mm.; width 3 -7 mm. Brazu 

 (Chapada). November. One specimen. 



There are no manifestations of sex on the under surface and the 

 type is therefore presumably a female. 



Craptus n. gen. 

 The type of this genus is the large Baridius tibialis Boh., of 

 Mexico, placed in Pseudobaris by Mr. Champion. It belongs to 

 the Pseudobarid series, but differs from typical Pseudobaris, which 

 I think is essentially neosubarctic, in the larger size of the body, 

 less closely sculptured integuments, slightly undulated elytra 

 shallower prosternal sulcus and inferiorly denticulate femora, but it 

 has an almost similar general organization, straight and connate 

 tarsal claws and strongly bifid decussate mandibles. 



The Pseudobarids— although Heterosternus is an older name- 

 form a very important element in the Barid fauna of North and 

 South America, and, when the subject shall have been studied in a 

 thorough and discriminative way, numerous genera will be recog- 

 nized among the forms now assigned to Pseudobaris. I have made 

 three of these known at the present time, under the names Genevra 

 Craptus and Lupulina, and the following are three additions, which 

 I here propose simply as subgenera of Pseudobaris; they are all 

 from the Central American regions: 



Tarsal claws connate at base, elytral surface more or less undulated; integuments 



oolished and more or less feebly sculptured ■ ■ : • • 



TarT claws slender, arcuate, divergent and perfectly free, not even contiguous 



2 -E a iyt b r a i e apices'evenly rounded '; ' prosternal canal deep, the posterior lobe large 

 and brotd, truncate. [Type Baridius undulatus Say]. Craptidia n. subgen. 



