Barin.e 323 



to the obtusely rounded apex, the humeral callus somewhat prominent; 

 grooves moderately coarse, deep; intervals from a little less to some- 

 what more than twice as wide as the grooves, their surface not flat but 

 evidently convex and with single series of extremely minute and feeble, 

 barely observable punctures; setae very minute and not distinct; ab- 

 domen with distinct though sparse punctures, the male with a triangular 

 basal concavity, rather shallow and extending not quite through the 

 second segment. Length (cf) 3.9 mm.; width 1.75 mm. Florida (In- 

 dian River). 



Comparable in some respects with lubrica, but with very different 

 elytral sculpture, the intervals in that species being fiat as usual, 

 with series of well developed punctures. 



Baris virginica n. sp. — Elongate, oblong-suboval, convex, polished, 

 deep black, the legs often feebly piceous; beak in the male feebly arcu- 

 ate, distinctly but not very closely punctate, two-thirds as long as the 

 prothorax, only a little longer and thicker in the female; prothorax with 

 feebly and evenly arcuate upper profile, a fourth, or slightly more, wider 

 than long, the sides slightly converging and feebly arcuate, rather 

 gradually rounding in nearly apical third, slightly rounded at the basal 

 angles; punctures moderate or small and sparser medially, coarser and 

 subcontiguous laterally, the median smooth line wanting; basal lobe 

 moderate, the scutellum srnall, rounded; elytra rather long, fully two- 

 fifths longer than wide, a little wider than the prothorax and fully three- 

 fourths longer, the sides just visibly converging and feebly arcuate to 

 the broadly obtuse apex, the humeral callus rather large, only moderately 

 prominent; grooves deep, somewhat coarse, the intervals not quite twice 

 as wide as the grooves, each with a line of small and well separated 

 punctures, which are sometimes slightly confused, the second and third 

 somewhat wider; setae minute and inconspicuous; abdomen moderately 

 and loosely, sometimes medially very finely, punctate, having in the 

 male a short feeble basal impression half as long as the first segment. 

 Length (cf 9) 4.0-4.5 mm.; width i. 6-1. 85 mm. Virginia (Norfolk). 

 Seven specimens. 



Rather closely allied to splendens Csy. {inter stitialis Lee. nee Say), 

 from Fernandina, Florida, but more elongate and larger in size, 

 with somewhat longer beak and less abbreviated prothorax. 



In my revision (p. 502), I confused several forms with typical 

 tenuestriata, and, at that time, construed them as parts of a single 

 species, but since then, with greater knowledge of the average 

 extent of individual variation in the species of the genus, I have 

 become convinced that there are a number of distinct species allied 

 to tenuestriata, of which the following should be described : 



Baris laxicoUis n. sp. — Subparallel, convex, rather shining, deep black 

 throughout; beak arcuate, densely and strongly punctate, four-fifths as 



