268 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



shining but minutely sculptured; setae nearly lacking on the pronotum, 

 the elytra with scattered but somewhat numerous subsquamiform, white, 

 recumbent hairs which are about as long as the width of the interspaces. 

 Head finely, 'sparsely punctate; beak as long as the prothorax, moderately 

 stout, strongly, evenly arcuate, closely punctate. Antennal funicle rather 

 slender; the second funicular joint about as long as wide, following joints 

 ; gradually more transverse but only slightly increasing in width, the eighth 

 less than half as wide as the club. Prothorax distinctly transverse, sides 

 nearly parallel and feebly arcuate from base to apical fourth, then strongly 

 rounded and constricted at the apex; surface densely punctate except to- 

 ward the middle of the disk, where the punctures are separated by nearly 

 their own width; a distinct fusiform, impunctate median line from the 

 apical third nearly to the base. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax 

 and scarcely twice as long; sides very slightly convergent behind, rather 

 broadly but subparabolically rounded at apex. Striae shallow, with dis- 

 tant, moderately well defined punctures; intervals about three times as 

 wide as the striae, all very numerously, confusedly punctate, the punctures 

 as a rule not more than one-fourth the width of the intervals. Abdomen 

 shining, moderately coarsely, but not densely punctate. Prosternum 

 densely, coarsely punctate, the intercoxal process rather less than half the 

 ooxal width. 



Length, 3.7 mm. 



One specimen taken in Los Angeles County. 



In the vestiture and sculpture of the elytra this species 

 is perhaps the most extraordinary in our fauna. The 

 second and third intervals are just visibly wider than 

 the others, but the punctuation is equally close and 

 confused from base to apex on all. B. heterodoxa seems 

 to fall between B. vespertina and B. oblongula in Casey's 

 ^able, but is evidently not closely related to either. 



90. Baris monticola, sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval, moderately convex; black throughout, with very faint 

 aeneous lustre; surface rather strongly shining. Head finely, sparsely 

 punctate; beak three-fourths as long as the prothorax, strongly curved, 

 rather stout, strongly and closely punctate at sides, more finely and less 

 -closely above, especially toward the apex. Antennae about as usual, the 

 basal joint of the club constituting a little less than half its mass, pol- 

 ished but pubescent toward the apex. Prothorax very little wider than 

 Jong, sides moderately convergent and nearly straight almost to the apex, 



