366 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



Pseudobaris vafra n. sp. — Larger and still stouter, oblong-suboval, 

 rather convex, polished and deep black; beak in the male strongly, 

 evenly arcuate, closely punctate and a little longer than the head and 

 prothorax, the latter rather short, fully two-fifths wider than long, the 

 sides converging and nearly straight — medially feebly sinuate, somewhat 

 as in Baris deformis — rapidly rounding in apical third or fourth, the 

 subtubulate apex just half as wide as the base, the median lobe abrupt 

 and prominent but small, narrowly rounded; punctures rather coarse, 

 deep, close laterally but elsewhere distinctly though not widely separated, 

 the median smooth line narrow, short and imperfect; scutellum trans- 

 versely oval, nearly smooth; elytra obtusely ovulate in outline, three- 

 sevenths longer than wide, slightly wider than the prothorax and dis- 

 tinctly more than twice as long, the humeri rather prominent; grooves 

 coarser than in the two preceding, deep, the intervals not quite twice as 

 wide as the grooves, with single series of coarse punctures, in some of the 

 rows so close as to be transversely oval, less coarse or strong and more 

 separated on the second and third; setae very small and indistinct, the 

 longer hairs extremely few in number, the basal condensations feeble; 

 abdomen with moderate but deep, everywhere close-set punctures, 

 having an oval and not sharply defined impression at base in the male. 

 Length (cf) 3.5 mm.; width 1.4 mm. California (locality not recorded). 

 One example. 



This species is easily identifiable by the rather short prothorax, 

 with coarse loose punctures and medially subsinuate sides, coarse, 

 close interstitial punctures and close-set punctuation of the abdomen ; 

 it is not closely related to either of the preceding. 



The four following species, represented by uniques, have no trace 

 of sparse longer hairs on the elytra, the first two without trace of a 

 condensation at the base of the third interval, the last two with 

 only the smallest and feeblest possible development of those 

 clusters; these species are all much stouter and more oval than 

 angusta Lee. : 



Pseudobaris brevier n. sp. — Oblong-suboval, convex, shining, deep 

 black throughout; beak in the male barely as long as the prothorax, 

 moderately arcuate, densely punctate at the sides, very minutely and 

 feebly dorsally toward apex; prothorax between a fourth and third 

 wider than long, the sides feebly converging and but slightly arcuate, 

 broadly and gradually rounding in almost anterior half, the briefly tubu- 

 late apex barely half as wide as the base, the lobe of the latter rather 

 abrupt and prominent; punctures moderately coarse, deep, well separ- 

 ated, close and longitudinally subconfluent at the sides, the smooth line 

 narrow, abbreviated, the scutellum transversely suboval; elytra very 

 obtusely ovoidal, two-fifths longer than wide, slightly wider than the 

 prothorax and not quite twice as long, the humeri rather prominent; 

 grooves deep, half as wide as the intervals, which have single series of 



