Ill— SOME DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES AMONG THE 

 AMERICAN BARING 



A recent survey of the Barid species in my collection reveals a 

 very large number of undescribed forms, and, before finally arrang- 

 ing the entire material in a systematic way, it seems desirable to 

 make these nondescripts known, so that future students of this 

 great subdivision of the Curculionidae may have, in a single col- 

 lection, a large part of all the necessary typical data to aid in the 

 identification of their American series. 



The Barinae are wonderfully developed in North and South 

 America, and, counting even the many species hitherto described 

 by Mr. Champion, the present writer and some others, it can be 

 said very truthfully that these afford scarcely more than a prelude 

 to the enormous total which will some day be known through 

 systematic record. My Brazilian quota of the subfamily, taken for 

 the most part by the late H. H. Smith, already includes almost 

 700 species, in great part still undescribed, and, in a future paper, it 

 is my intention to publish descriptions of some of the more inter- 

 esting of them. 



The following descriptions embrace most of the new forms at 

 present in my collection, but some of the latter, though apparently 

 valid as species or subspecies, are omitted, because of lack of con- 

 firmatory material in those parts of certain genera where the species 

 become especially numerous and closely interrelated. 



Bans Germ. 



Before making known a surprising number of new forms in this 

 genus — more in fact than the entire number previously published — 

 it is desirable to record a few corrections in my previous work 

 (Ann. N. Y. Acad. VI, 1892, p. 460). Some of these have either 

 been adopted or suspected by Blatchley and Leng. 



As noted by the authors mentioned, the species recorded by me 

 under the name transversa Say, is really the inter stitialis of that 

 author, of which quadrata and carinulata Lee, are synonyms or 



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