10 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



than Ca. granaria, but whether they may have been taken with specimens of 

 that insect does not appear. 



Locality unknown : — -from the Marshamian collection. 



Genus CCLXXIV. — Baris, Germar. 



Antennae geniculatedj 12-jointed, rather short, and somewhat stout ; funiculus 

 7-jointed, its basal joint more or less elongated, obconic; the second some- 

 times also obconic ; the rest short ; the club obtusely oval, four-jointed. 

 Rostrum elongate, subcylindric, curved: thorax a little convex, the base 

 somewhat bisinuated: body elliptic, depressed: elytra oblong, a Uttle convex, 

 the apex obtusely rounded ; the pygidium sometimes a little exposed : legs 

 short, stout; anterior distant at the base ; tibice armed within with a stout hook. 



From the foregoing genera of this family Baris diflfers by having 

 the antennae 12-jointed, seven of which are comprised in the funi- 

 culus, and from the rest of the family, in which the rostrum is elongate 

 and deflexed, and not inserted in a pectoral groove, by the base of 

 the anterior legs being distant: — the species frequent damp and 

 marshy situations, and subsist upon aquatic or subaquatic plants : 

 — the two first differ slightly in form, &c. from the three last, and 

 would, with propriety, form a division in the genus. 



Sp. 1. Atriplicis. Lineari-elongatus, niger nitidus, pectoris abdominisque lateri- 



hus subtus alho-squamosis, rostro mediocri incurvo. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Cu. AtripUcis. Paykul.—Ba.. Atriphcis. Steph. Catal. 149. No. 1500. 



Linear-elongate, shining black, glabrous; thorax thickly and rather deeply 

 punctate, with a smooth narrow dorsal line ; the lateral margins with a few 

 scattered griseous hairs ; elytra striated, the striae subpunctate, and the inter- 

 stices flat, each with minute punctures, disposed in a line, and a little setose : 

 body beneath and sides of the abdomen densely clothed with snowy-white 

 scales : rostrum moderately incurved. 



Not uncommon in many places within the metropolitan district ; 

 in Battersea-fields I have frequently taken it, and also in the damp 

 meadows near Hertford ; it also occurs in Norfolk, and in Somerset- 

 shire. " On Erica tetralix on Crwmlyn-bog." — L. W. Dilkoyn, Esq. 



Sp. 2. pilistriatus. Elongatus, niger, pilosus; subtus albus, elytris striatis, in~ 



terstitiis seriato-pilosis. (Long. corp. l^lin.) 

 St. pilistriatus. Kirby MS.— Ba. ^'ilistviatus. Steph. Catal. U9. No. 1501. 



Elongate, black, pilose : beneath white : thorax rather deeply punctate, without 

 a smooth dorsal line: elytra striated, the striiE obscurely punctate, the inter- 



