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crenulate; intervals more than twice as wide as the grooves, very flat, 

 subequal, all finely but deeply, confusedly punctate, the third a little 

 wider; setae very small; abdomen with rather small but deep, somewhat 

 well separated punctures, closer but not larger toward the sides, except 

 at the sides of the first segment, where they are coarser and sparser; 

 anterior coxae separated by somewhat more than half their widths. 

 Length (9 ) 4.7 mm.; width 2.0 mm. California (southern). 



The single female at hand represents a species differing greatly 

 from the female type of opacula, in which the legs are similarly 

 piceous-black in color, in its larger size and very much stouter 

 outline, larger, more transverse and laterally more rounded pro- 

 thorax, less confused interstitial punctures and more oblong and 

 less elongate-oval form of the body. As in the case of the type of 

 alternans, the exact locality is unrecorded. The dimensions of the 

 female type of opacula are 3.8 by 1.45 mm. 



Baris brunneipes Csy., a rather large species, described as from 

 an unrecorded part of California, has recently been sent to me by 

 Mr. Spalding, having been taken at Stockton, Utah. 



The numerous species which follow are all small and allied as a 

 rule to cerea, aperta, confinis, socialis, ancilla and inconspicua, 

 although there are some that are not at all close to anything made 

 known hitherto; discipula is now represented in my collection by 

 four specimens from Indiana, Illinois and Kansas; it is a much 

 narrower species than cerea. Specimens said to be cerea sent to me 

 by Mr. Champion from Guatemala City, prove upon comparison 

 to be quite different, and there are many other Mexican and Central 

 American species more or less allied to cBrea but different specifically 

 and nearly all undescribed. 



Baris cruda n. sp. — Stout, with inflated elytra, convex, shining, black, 

 with very feeble submetallic lustre; beak in the female thick, moderately 

 punctate, arcuate and almost as long as the prothorax, the latter trans- 

 verse, almost one-half wider than long, the sides subparallel, arcuate, 

 rounding and converging in apical third or more, the apex very feebly 

 constricted, the basal lobe small; punctures coarse, separated by their 

 own diameters, dense laterally, finer and relatively closer apically, the 

 smooth median line completely wanting in the type; scutellum very 

 small; elytra scarcely a third longer than wide, fully a fourth wider than 

 the prothorax and not quite twice as long, the parallel sides nearly 

 straight, rapidly very obtuse at apex, the humeri very moderate; grooves 

 coarse and deep, becoming finer apically, the intervals as wide as the 

 grooves basally, relatively wider posteriori}', each with a single series of 

 very moderate separated punctures; setae minute and inconspicuous; 



