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scarcely a fifth wider than long, the sides slightly converging and feebly 

 arcuate, becoming rather broadly rounding and converging in about 

 apical third, the apex half as wide as the base and not constricted; 

 basal lobe rather small, short and rounded; punctures moderately coarse, 

 separated by barely their own diameters medially, gradually coarser and 

 dense laterally, the smooth median line very narrow and much abbrevi- 

 ated; scutellum nearly as in nephiana; elytra much broader, scarcely 

 more than a fourth longer than wide, between a fourth and fifth wider 

 than the prothorax and three-fifths longer, parallel, very rapidly and 

 obtusely rounded at apex; humeri obtusely prominent; grooves rather 

 coarse and deep, finely, distantly punctate along the bottom; intervals 

 distinctly wider than the grooves, the second and third but little wider; 

 punctures strong and close-set, rather confused but forming single series 

 on some of the intervals; setae pale, small; abdomen strongly, rather 

 closely punctate, the male with a large deep and well defined basal 

 impression, triangular in form, with evenly almost flat bottom, the 

 point of the triangle at the apex of the second segment. Length (cT) 

 3.7 mm.; width 1.6 mm. Colorado (Poudre River). 



A notably isolated species by reason of the relatively narrow 

 prothorax, short and parallel elytra, rather coarse, close sculpture 

 and in the abdominal sexual characters of the male. 



Baris profuga n. sp. — -Rather stout, suboval, strongly convex, some- 

 what shining, blackish-piceous, the under surface and legs more rufous; 

 beak arcuate, three-fifths as long as the prothorax, moderately and not 

 densely punctate; prothorax fully a fourth wider than long, the sides 

 slightly converging and feebly arcuate, broadly rounding and then 

 strongly converging in about apical fourth, the apex less than half as 

 wide as the base and unconstricted ; basal lobe obtusely cuspidiform; 

 punctures coarse, separated by about their own diameters, denser but 

 not coarser laterally; median smooth line untraceable; scutellum small, 

 not impressed; elytra barely a third longer than wide, barely wider than 

 the prothorax, with feebly converging sides and broadly rounded apex, 

 the humeral callus prominent; grooves moderately coarse, very deep, 

 abrupt and smooth ; intervals nearly twice as wide as the grooves, rather 

 closely, coarsely, and confusedly punctate, forming single series on some 

 of the intervals except basally, the second and third a little wider than 

 the others; setae rather small, pale as usual; abdomen with somewhat 

 coarse and close-set punctures, with a very moderate shallow, not well 

 defined cavity occupying the middle of the first segment in the male. 

 Length (cf ) 3.85 mm.; width 1.8 mm. California (Yuma), — Wickham. 

 Also a male specimen corresponding almost exactly and labeled Sta. Rosa, 

 Cal., and another from San Diego taken by Ricksecker. 



This species is decidedly stouter than any of the six preceding 

 and has more confused elytral punctuation than most of them; 

 it is not closely allied to any other California species hitherto 

 described. 



