Brazilian Baring 503 



Camopis n. gen. 



This genus might be characterized in general terms as a Strongy- 

 lotes of small size and very slender form, having the pygidium 

 completely concealed by the elytra, but there are many other 

 important divergencies. The beak is short, slender, cylindric and 

 feebly sculptured, the front sloping gradually to its upper surface. 

 Antennae well behind the middle, rather slender, the scape almost 

 attaining the eye, its apex slightly curved outward, the first funicular 

 joint somewhat longer than the next two but not much thicker, 

 the outer joints gradually wider, the club small, narrow, oblong- 

 oval, about as long as the three preceding joints and subequally 

 segmented in the type, with the first segment glabrous and shining. 

 Prosternum differing greatly from Strongylotes in having the coxae 

 only slightly behind the middle of the length and separated by 

 about a fourth their width, the surface flat or convex and unmodified 

 throughout; base differing in having a large and broadly rounded 

 median lobe, very short and not well defined in parvirostris. Pro- 

 thorax oblong, briefly and feebly narrowed at apex, a r'cua to-truncate 

 at base, the scutellum small, rather closely fitted, oblong, expanding 

 at base; elytra moderately striate, somewhat rugulose, exarate at 

 apex. Legs short, the anterioi a little longer, the tarsi nanow and 

 undilated, the claws somewhat small and free. The two species in 

 my collection may be described as follows: 



Body very slender, parallel, convex, dull in lustre, blackish-piceous and somewhat 

 closely clothed above with rather large, closely decumbent whitish scales, 

 almost uniform in distribution, but narrowly almost wanting along the 

 middle of the pronotum, somewhat less numerous and not so conspicuous 

 beneath; beak short, very slender, evenly cylindric, very evenly but feebly 

 arcuate, finely, sparsely punctate, densely squamo-herissate above the eyes, 

 and only four-sevenths as long as the prothorax; antennae as described above, 

 dark rufous, inserted at two-fifths; prothorax a third longer than wide, 

 parallel, the nearly, straight sides rounded and oblique only in apical fifth or 

 sixth, the truncate apex two-thirds as wide as the base; punctures confusedly 

 subconfluent throughout, moderately strong; narrow biabbreviated smooth 

 median line somewhat prominent; basal margin feebly prominent at the 

 middle; elytra nearly two and one-half times as long as wide, barely as wide 

 as the prothorax and only four-fifths longer, the sides parallel and straight; 

 apex rapidly rounded and oblique, not obtuse; humeral prominences wholly 

 obsolete; striae moderate but not well defined, their punctures bearing fine 

 squamules, the intervals rugose and with large scales; tibiae very short; 

 abdomen even, the sutures refiexed at the sides; prosternum flat, the short 

 intercoxal suture distinct. Length 4.75 mm.; width 0.85 mm. Brazil 

 (Chapada). March. One specimen cylindrica n. sp. 



Body not quite so slender, nearly as convex, parallel, more sparsely sculptured 

 and clothed and slightly more shining, rufous in color throughout, the head 

 black, the beak rufous; pale squamules very different, long, very slender, 

 well separated and wanting broadly along the middle on the pronotum, very 

 slender, sparse and suberect on the elytra, rather fine, nearly white and closer 



