BARIN.E 3^7 



Bans uinta n. sp. — Small in size, rather stout, convex, somewhat 

 shining though coarsely and densely sculptured, dark red-brown in color 

 throughout; beak slightly arcuate, very nearly as long as the prothorax 

 in both sexes, moderately and somewhat closely punctate; antennal club 

 short and stout; prothorax rather more than a fourth wider than long, 

 the sides nearly straight and parallel in about basal half, thence gradually 

 rounding and converging to the subobsolete apical constriction; punc- 

 tures coarse and very close-set, the median smooth area very small to 

 obsolescent; elytra a third to two-fifths longer than wide, a fifth wider 

 than the prothorax and four-fifths or more longer, parallel, rapidly and 

 obtusely rounded at apex, the humeral callus rather feeble; grooves 

 somewhat narrow, finely seriato-punctate, the intervals distinctly wider 

 than the grooves, each with a single series of moderately coarse and rather 

 close-set punctures, the third barely visibly wider than the others and 

 similarly uniseriate; setai very small, pale; abdomen rather strongly 

 but not very closely or coarsely punctate, the male with a small feeble 

 impression at the middle of the first suture. Length (c/" 9 ) 2.7-3.2 mm. ; 

 width 1. 2-1. 4 mm. Utah (southwestern), — Weidt. Five specimens. 



This species is altogether isolated, by far the smallest of the 

 transversa group and recognizable also by the red-brown color and 

 close sculpture. 



The species named Baris umbilicata by LeConte, is rather 

 abundant from the Hudson River Valley to North Carolina and 

 westward to Iowa and Texas; it is rather short, stout and very- 

 convex, deep black, with notably long but feebly arcuate, densely 

 sculptured beak, coarse pronotal punctures, separated by barely 

 half their diameters, and rather coarse interstitial punctures in 

 even single series and moderately though uniformly separated. 

 The elytra are distinctly wider than the prothorax and scarcely 

 more than a fourth longer than wide, and the under surface is 

 coarsely, deeply and somewhat closely punctate throughout, the 

 male with a rather deep elongate-oval impression at the base of the 

 abdomen, obsolete at the base of the second segment. In the single 

 Texas male at hand, the pronotal punctures are separated by almost 

 their own diameters and the abdominal impression is somewhat 

 feebler than in the typical forms occurring from Pennsylvania — 

 the original type locality — to Iowa, and a female from Indiana is 

 more elongate and more regularly oval, with elytra nearly a third 

 longer than wide. In looking over my material I find four related 

 but distinct species as follows: 



Baris minuens n. sp. — Small, more narrowly oval, strongly convex, 

 shining and deep black, the tarsi rufescent; beak in the male cjlindric. 



