Brazilian Baring 501 



about apical third, the truncate apex four-sevenths as wide as the base, 

 which is distinctly narrower than the width near apical third; punctures 

 rather coarse and deep, confluent laterally, less coarse but deep and separated 

 by their widths medially, the smooth median line distinctly prominent; 

 elytra two and two-fifths longer than wide, as wide as the anterior part of 

 the prothorax and distinctly wider than the base of the latter, a little over 

 twice as long, the sides parallel and straight, gradually converging and arcuate 

 in about apical third to the narrowly obtuse apex; humeral swellings feeble, 

 narrow and polished; striae coarse, the close punctures each with a distinct 

 elongate scale; intervals loosely, rugulosely and confusedly punctulate and 

 with regular single series of large elongate scales; pygidium small, short and 

 circularly rounded; first ventral suture fine though strongly marked through- 

 out, the abdomen evenly convex. Length 6.2 mm.; width 1.65 mm. Brazil 

 (Chapada). One specimen brevirostris n. sp. 



The Strongylotes brachialis of Boheman, said to be from Mexico, 

 with its dentate femora and other aberrant characters, should 

 evidently form the type ot a distinct genus, and parallelus Chmp., 

 the only other recorded species from the Central American region, 

 differs materially from guatemalensis in its much smaller size, longer 

 beak — said to be as long as the head and prothorax — and narrow 

 tarsi, those in guatemalensis being normally dilated. Squamans 

 Bob., is probably a typical Strongylotes , but the beak is said to be 

 as long as the prothorax and the elytral scales denser at base, apex 

 and medially, which would impart quite a different habitus from 

 anything known to me, and, in lemniscatus, the type of the genus, 

 the prothorax is described as tubulate at apex and slightly prominent 

 along the median line, the elytral striation apparently very different, 

 the exarate posterior stiiae extending further forward, and the 

 anterior part of the striation finer than in the forms here described. 



Neobaridia n. gen. 



The general habitus of the body and nature and distribution of 

 the vestiture in this genus is very much as in Strongylotes, but it 

 differs in four important particulars relating to the beak, prosternum, 

 sculpture, especially of the pronotum, and in the free though not 

 very divergent tarsal claws. The beak is much less vertical in 

 repose than in the preceding genus, short, virtually straight and 

 subconical or feebly tapering from base to apex, though similarly 

 circular in section and feebly sculptured, and it is not separated 

 from the head by any kind of an impression. Antenna? slightly 

 beyond the middle, nearly as in Strongylotes, but with smaller and 

 narrower club. The prosternum is rather short, flat, with a similar 

 fine subapical constriction, separates the coxse by rather more than 

 half their width, they being much less approximate than in Strongy- 

 lotes, and the posterior part is perfectly flat, not longitudinally 

 tumid along the middle; the hind margin is truncate. Prothorax 



