Baring 343 



Baris esuriens n. sp.— Slender, elongate-oval, strongly convex, rather 

 dull in lustre and coarsely, densely sculptured, black, the legs slightly 

 piceous; beak in the female arcuate, rugosely sculptured and slightly 

 longer than the prothorax, the latter a fourth or fifth wider than long, 

 the sides very feebly converging and slightly arcuate, gradually rounding 

 and oblique in nearly apical third, the apex not constricted; punctures 

 deep, moderately coarse and dense throughout, without smooth median 

 line; basal lobe small, feeble; scutellum small, elongate-suboval; elytra 

 ovulate, convex, two-fifths longer than wide, widest near basal third, 

 where they are just visibly wider than the prothorax, nearly twice as 

 long, the sides evenly arcuate, gradually converging behind to the rather 

 narrowly rounded apex, feebly so basally, the base and thoracic base 

 equal, the humeral callus very feeble, almost invisible to vertical view; 

 grooves moderate, the intervals alternating in width and confusedly to 

 uniseriately punctate, the punctures rather strong but visibly separated; 

 abdomen with moderately coarse, even and rather close-set punctures. 

 Length (9) 2.4 mm.; width 0.8 mm. Kansas (Fort Scott). 



The form of the elytra is peculiar, being feebly inflated subbasally, 

 with almost invisible humerai callus, and the beak is rather longer 

 than usual in Baris; all the punctures above and beneath have 

 small narrow slender scales, which are more or less subdecumbent. 



Plesiobaris Csy. 

 The species previously described as signatipes, which is held to 

 be a subspecies of T-signum by Blatchley and Leng, is not, I think, 

 at all closely allied, as it belongs plainly to the albilatus section of 

 the genus; the type is not piceous but dark, though evident, red- 

 brown; the disposition of the condensations of scales is as in 

 albilatus but the body is very much more minute, with more slender 

 beak and sparser pronotal punctures than in any other known 

 member of the genus; the beak in the type is strongly and evenly 

 arcuate and as long as the prothorax. The following species is also 

 allied to albilatus, but differs in its smaller size and other characters: 



Plesiobaris rufina n. sp. — Subcylindric-oval, strongly convex, shining, 

 dark but clear brownish-red; beak slender, strongly, evenly arcuate, 

 rather closely but not densely punctulate and somewhat longer than the 

 prothorax, the latter fully a fourth wider than long, the parallel sides 

 feebly arcuate, rapidly rounded and sensibly constricted at apex, the 

 latter truncate and two-thirds as wide as the base; punctures coarse and 

 close-set, the smooth median line narrow, usually entire or nearly so; 

 basal lobe rather large but short, broadly rounded, the scutellum small, 

 triangular; elytra two-fifths longer than wide, just visibly wider than 

 the prothorax and almost twice as long, the sides parallel, rounding 

 gradually behind the middle, the humeral callus small; grooves fine 



