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arcuate behind the rather prominent humeral callus, the narrowed apex 

 obtusely rounded; grooves moderately coarse and very deep, intervals 

 twice as wide as the grooves or more, each with a well-spaced single 

 series of very moderate punctures; setae sparse, minute and very incon- 

 spicuous; abdomen with fine sparse punctures, coarser and closer later- 

 ally, the basal segment with a simple median impression throughout its 

 length in the male. Length (cf 9) 3.6-4.1 mm.; width 1.5-1.8 mm. 

 Texas (Brownsville), — Wickham. Eleven specimens. 



A smaller, narrower and more loosely punctate species than 

 inter stitialis, more polished and with very regular single interstitial 

 series of smaller punctures. 



Baris brachyrhina n. sp. — A little shorter, broader and more densely 

 sculptured than the preceding and with still shorter beak and stouter 

 femora; coloration similar, the lustre not quite so shining; beak arcuate, 

 rather finely, closely punctate, less than half as long as the prothorax in 

 the male and but little longer in the female; prothorax rather more than 

 a fourth wider than long, the sides converging barely at all, arcuate, 

 rather rapidly rounding and strongly convergent in about apical third, 

 the basal lobe moderately prominent, not broadly rounded; punctures 

 rather coarse and close, separated by a third to half their diameters, 

 dense and longitudinally subconfluent at the sides, the median smooth 

 line almost obliterated; scutellum notably small, subquadrate, feebly 

 impressed; elytra barely two-fifths longer than wide and scarcely at all 

 wider than the prothorax and about three-fourths longer, with the sides 

 feebly converging and broadly arcuate to the obtusely rounded apex; 

 humeral callus moderately prominent; groov'es rather coarse, deep, with 

 fine and well separated punctures; intervals less than twice as wide as 

 the grooves, with rather strong and usually close-set punctures in single 

 series, the second and third wider, the latter with confused punctures in 

 the female or single line in the male; abdomen strongly, somewhat 

 closely punctate, more sparsely medio-basally, this part scarcely more 

 than flattened in the male. Length (cf 9) 3.3-3.8 mm.; width 1.3- 

 1.6 mm. Mississippi (Vicksburg), Missouri and Texas (Lavaca Co., 

 and Columbus). Six specimens. 



This species is distinct by reason of the exceptionally short beak 

 in both sexes and in the feeble sexual characters of the male. 



Baris fultoni n. sp. — Body throughout almost as in the preceding, 

 except that the thoracic punctures are still denser and the beak relatively 

 somewhat longer, this being arcuate, closely punctate, less stout and, 

 in the female, evidently more than half as long as the prothorax, the 

 latter as in the preceding, but with the punctures not quite so coarse and 

 separated by barely a third of their widths as a rule, dense and forming 

 evident rugulae at the sides; median smooth line narrow or barely trace- 

 able; scutellum and elytra throughout nearly similar; pygidium with 

 the similarly very dense punctures notably coarser; abdomen almost 

 similar. Length (9) 3-35-3-5 mm.; width 1.5-1.6 mm. Xew York 

 (Hudson Valley) and West Point, — Robinson. 



