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and other characters; from meraca it differs in the smaller, more 

 distant serial punctures of the elytra and in the more converging 

 sides of the prothorax, which are more rapidly rounded anteriorly, 

 and it differs furthermore from either in the short transverse 

 scutellum and relatively broader elytra. 



The following species is wholly unlike any other in our fauna in 

 sculpture, vestiture and general habitus. At first it seemed likely 

 to be a member of the genus Pycnobaris, having a similarly very 

 robust outline, though less convex, but the beak is not separated 

 from the head by an abrupt transverse sulcus as in that genus and 

 the anterior coxae are less widely separated : 



Baris lanosella n. sp. — Broad, oblong-suboval, rather convex, feebly 

 shining, black, with feeble bronze lustre, the legs more or less rufo- 

 piceous, the vestiture throughout consisting of long and slender sub- 

 decumbent hair-like scales, dark grayish in color and not at all dense, a 

 little shorter beneath; beak long, arcuate, closely, not finely sculptured 

 and as long as the prothorax in the female; prothorax transverse, not 

 quite one-half wider than long, the sides subparallel, broadly arcuate, 

 very gradually rounding in about apical half, the apex not constricted, 

 truncate and much less than half as wide as the base; punctures deep, 

 rather coarse, although narrowly separated, the median smooth line 

 distinct and subentire, broadest medially; scutellum small, slightly 

 transverse, tumid and feebly canaliculate; elytra oblong, a fourth longer 

 than wide, a fourth or fifth wider than the prothorax and about twice as 

 long, the sides parallel, nearly straight, rounding evenly in posterior two- 

 fifths, the humeral callus very feeble, the sides at base oblique; grooves 

 moderate, becoming coarse a;nd strongly punctate but not crenulate 

 basally; intervals broad, flat, confusedly and not very coarsely but 

 rather closely punctured throughout; subapical umbo rather pronounced; 

 pygidium moderate, slightly oblique; abdomen strongly, rather closely 

 punctate. Length (9 ) 4.4 mm.; width 2.2 mm. Wyoming (Laramie) . 



The peculiarities of this species reside in the stout oblong form, 

 and in the close and confused punctures and distinct long slender 

 hair-like scales throughout the upper surface. The beak is separ- 

 ated from the head above by the usual feeble smooth impression of 

 Baris, and the head is distinctly punctured behind the depression. 



The following is a minute species, the affinities of which cannot be 

 determined at present; it seemed at first to be a minute and slender 

 Onychobaris, but on closer examination it proves to be in all prob- 

 ability a Baris; the anterior coxse are separated by a little less than 

 their own width and the intervening surface is feebly concave: 



