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abdomen strongly and densely punctate. Length (9) 3.2 mm.; width 

 1.4 mm. Indiana. Levette collection. 



The type of this species was overlooked in my revision of the 

 genus; the species is not closely allied to any other and the ab- 

 dominal punctures are as dense as in punctiventris though less coarse ; 

 the latter is much narrower than cruda. 



Of Baris monardce Pierce, I have two examples' from Missouri; 

 it was described from Dallas, Texas. It resembles deformis to 

 some extent in sculpture, except that the thoracic punctures are 

 smaller and still denser. The abdomen is densely punctate. 



Baris regularis Chmp., a very small species, with coarse sculp- 

 ture, short beak and acutely prominent external tibial angles, small 

 transverse scutellum and coarse elytral grooves, seems to be repre- 

 sented in my collection by a single specimen taken at Tepehuanes, 

 Durango, by Wickham; the typical regularis is from Guerrero, and 

 the beak is described as closely punctate; in the Durango specimen 

 it is however sparsely and very inconspicuously punctate. 



Baris sejuncta n. sp. — Oblong-oval and moderately convex, polished, 

 black, the legs slightly piceous; beak in the female cylindrical, rather 

 thick and arcuate, four-fifths as long as the prothorax and not densely 

 punctulate; prothorax short, one-half wider than long, having evenly 

 arcuate upper profile, the sides subparallel, feebly arcuate, very gradually 

 rounding and converging before the middle, without trace of apical con- 

 striction; basal lobe abrupt, distinct; punctures coarse, a little less 

 so medially, widely separated; close-set laterally, the median smooth 

 line not definite; scutellum very small, quadrate, impressed behind; 

 elytra two-fifths longer than wide, a little wider than the prothorax and 

 not quite twice as long, the sides feebly converging, gradually obtuse at 

 tip, the humeri prominent; grooves rather coarse and deep, especially 

 toward the sides basally, less coarse suturally; intervals one-half wider 

 than the grooves, each with a single series of rather small but distinct 

 and moderately spaced punctures, the second and third wider but still 

 with single series; setae very small; abdomen with small sparse punc- 

 tures, closer and larger laterally. Length (9 ) 3-2 mm.; width 1.35 mm. 

 Florida. One example. 



The only species with which this can be at all closely compared is 

 ceneomicans , said to be from Massachusetts, but there is no trace of 

 the seneous lustre so pronounced in that form; the body is smaller 

 and shorter and the legs rufescent and not black. 



Baris persola n. sp. — Elongate-suboval, convex, shining, black, with 

 somewhat aeneous lustre; beak in the female thick, arcuate, three-fourths 



