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Pseudobaris kansana n. sp. — More narrowly elongate-oval, much less 

 obtuse behind, convex, deep black and not very shining; beak in the 

 male short, feebly punctate, opaculate, only slightly arcuate and a little 

 longer than the prothorax, which is shorter, fully a fifth wider than long, 

 the sides feebly converging and nearly straight, rounding gradually from 

 only slightly beyond the middle, the subtubulate apex more than half as 

 wide as the base, the basal lobe nearly as in levettei; punctures coarse 

 but not very deep, dense, the smooth median line feebly traceable 

 medially but not definite; scutellum small, transverse, coarsely sculp- 

 tured; elytra nearly one-half longer than w^ide, barely wider than the 

 prothorax and somewhat more than twice as long, elongate, suboval, 

 more narrowly rounded behind than in levettei, the humeral callus less 

 prominent; grooves deep, very moderate; intervals nearly twice as 

 wide as the grooves, each with a single line of shallow and well spaced, 

 subtransverse punctures; setae inconspicuous, the basal clusters obsolete; 

 abdomen polished as usual, with fine, deep and evidently separated 

 punctures, becoming rather coarse though not at all dense at the sides, 

 the medio-basal impression of the male small, oval and very shallow. 

 Length (cf ) 3.0 mm.; width 1. 1 mm. Kansas. 



Distinguishable easily from levettei by the characters given above, 

 and, from angusta, the typical locality of which is also Kansas, it 

 may be known by the very much larger prothorax, with evidently 

 converging sides and less parallel elytra, which are less distinctly 

 wider than the prothorax; the latter in angusta is small, cylindric, 

 arcuately rounding at the sides in apical two-fifths, only four-fifths 

 as wide as the elytra and much less than half as long. 



Hesperobaris Csy. 



In this genus of very small, oval, convex species, the pygidium 



in the male is vertical and rather well developed; in the female, 



however, it is very short, not visible from behind and forms a part 



of the abdomen in even continuation of the convexity of the latter. 



In my original work on Hesperobaris, I placed with the type, named 



suavis and founded upon the female, a male specimen from Missouri; 



it appears now, however, that this Missouri specimen represents 



another species, the differences being unaccountable on the score 



of sex: 



Hesperobaris ovulum n. sp. — Evenly elongate-oval, strongly convex, 

 rather shining, deep black, the legs and beak rufo-piceous; beak in the 

 male moderately thick and arcuate, closely punctured and equal in length 

 to the prothorax, the antennal club narrow, elongate-oval and pubescent 

 throughout; prothorax a fourth wider than long, the sides feebly con- 

 vergent and nearly straight, gradually slightly arcuate and feebly con- 



