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grooves not very coarse but deep, not at all crenate, the intervals twice 

 as wide, each with a single even series of small and well separated punc- 

 tures, the second and third slightly wider, evenly uniseriate, but with the 

 punctures smaller and more close-set; setae very minute and incon- 

 spicuous; metasternum with very coarse punctures having three times 

 the area of those of the side-pieces or of the base of the abdomen, the 

 latter separated by their own widths at the sides. Length (cT) 3.0 mm.; 

 width 1. 15 mm. North Carolina (Black Mts.),— Beutenmuller. 



Narrower, more elongate and more convex than socialis, with 

 slightly shorter beak and very much coarser metasternal punctures. 



Baris carolinensis n. sp. — Oblong-suboval, moderately convex, pol- 

 ished, black, with just visible aeneous lustre; beak not stout, feebly 

 arcuate, rather closely punctulate, three-fifths (cf) or three-fourths (9) 

 as long as the prothorax, which is a third to two-fifths wider than long, 

 the sides feebly converging and slightly arcuate, rapidly rounding and 

 very convergent in about apical fourth, the basal lobe moderate, cuspidi- 

 form; punctures relatively rather coarse, deep, separated by about their 

 own diameters, dense and longitudinally subconfiuent at the sides, the 

 smooth median line evident but abbreviated; scutellum very small, 

 rounded; elytra two-fifths longer than wide, rather evidently wider than 

 the prothorax and about tw^ice as long, the sides feebly converging and 

 slightly arcuate, the apex obtusely rounded, the humeri polished, not 

 very prominent; grooves somewhat coarse, very deep, w'ith smooth sides, 

 the intervals barely twice as wide as the grooves, each w^ith a single series 

 of fine and well separated punctures, which are more irregular on the 

 wider second and third intervals, the setae minute and inconspicuous; 

 abdomen moderately and loosely punctate, more coarsely and closely 

 toward the sides, having a feeble medio-basal impression in the male. 

 Length (d^ 9) 2.7-2.8 mm.; width 1.15-1.2 mm. North Carolina 

 (Black IVIts.), — Beutenmuller. Three specimens. 



Allied to confinis Lee, but differs in its somewhat smaller size and 

 slightly narrower outline, also in the somewhat longer beak and 

 more shouldered prothorax, which has likewise an unusually ab- 

 breviated form and strong, rather close-set punctures, differing in 

 these and other respects from socialis and ancilla. 



Baris ashevillensis n. sp. — Oblong-oval, elongate, strongly convex, 

 polished, black, without metallic lustre of any kind; beak in the male 

 short, arcuate, finely, not densely punctate and scarcely three-fifths as 

 long as the prothorax, which is less abbreviated than in the preceding 

 or in confinis, the sides moderately converging and feebly arcuate, rapidly 

 rounding and converging in apical fourth; basal lobe small, feeble; 

 punctures moderate, separated by twice their diameters, becoming 

 coarser and close toward the sides, the median smooth line evident but 

 abbreviated; scutellum small, rounded; elytra rather more than two- 

 fifths longer than wide, slightly wider than the prothorax and a little less 



