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about 1 lie identity of the same. Waterhouse's is the earlier 

 name. 



AVaterhouse referred the species to Barichus, but stated 

 that it would probably enter into Pascoe's genus Acythnpeus.* 

 It seems to me, however, that the species cannot be referred 

 to Aciitliopeu.^.j of which Pascoe says that the scape is remote 

 from the eye ; in aterrimus it extends quite close to the eye ; 

 he also says: — "Near Mi/rfidc!^, o^^ly the rostrum is very 

 much curved and thickened at the base." Certainly in nterri- 

 mus the outlines are very different from the two figures of the 

 rostrum and head as figured for tristis and hige7ni)inf')(s.\ The 

 sculpture of the elytra also is very different to that described 

 by Pascoe in the five species known to him. But as the 

 species is an introduced one I have not felt justified in pro- 

 posing a new generic name for it. 



SOLENOBARIS, n. g. 



Head comparatively large. Eyes large, round, and close 

 together, liostrum moderately stout, the length of prothorax, 

 moderately curved. Antennae stout : scape inserted about 

 middle of rostrum, resting in a shallow scrobe, and extending 

 back to the eye ;^ basal joint of funicle stout. Protliorax 

 slightly transverse. Eh/tra cordate. Presternum with a 

 moderately wide and deep pectoral canal, sharply limited on 

 the sides and terminated behind front coxae. Ahdoiiien 

 large, first segment slightly longer than the two following 

 combined. Pygidium rounded and distinct. Legs mode- 

 rately long. Few ova not very stout, feebly or not at all den- 

 tate. 



At first sight apparently belonging to the (^ryptrjrhyn- 

 chides, and close to Idofaaia of that subfamily, but the side 

 pieces of the mesosternum are unusually large and are typi- 

 cal of the Bai^idiides ; the pygidium is also distinct. The 

 pectoral canal, however, is quite as in many of the Cryjjto- 

 rhynchidea, as is also the intercoxal process of the mesoster- 

 num. I think the genus should be referred to the very end 

 of the Baridiides. 



SOLENOBARIS DECIPIENS, U. Sp. 



Deep black, shining, antennae almost black. Glabrous. 

 Head rather densely and strongly punctate. ]\o><triini 



* At that time (January, 1874) unpublished. 



t ft is certainly not a Boris, however, as the prosterninii is 

 without the slightest trace of a longitudinal impression. 



It Joiirn. Linn. Soc. Zool., xii., pi. iii., figs. 11a and 17. 



If It really does extend back to the eye, although when set out 

 it apparently does not do so. 



