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basal, gradually arcuate and converging in apical, half; apex un- 

 constricted, rather more than half as wide as the base; punctures 

 coarse, close though narrowly separated, the smooth line distinct 

 except toward apex and base; elytra two-fifths longer than wide, 

 rapidly parabolic, with arcuate sides and rather narrow apex, at the 

 somewhat prominent humeri distinctly wider than the prothorax, 

 two-thirds longer; stria; moderate; intervals with single series of 

 distinct punctures and twice as wide as the striae; male abdomen 

 with feeble and less squamose medio-basal impression. Length (cf ) 

 2.6 mm.; width i.i mm. Brazil (Para), — Baker.. . *parensis n. sp. 



15 — Body oblong-suboval and moderately convex, black, the legs red; 

 squamules above whitish, slender and well separated but rather 

 closer in outer fourth on the pronotum, in single to double lines on 

 the elytra; scutellum and thoracic lobe densely albido-squamose; 

 white parallel scales beneath distinctly separated; beak in the female 

 slightly arcuate, subcylindric, nearly smooth, except basally, and as 

 long as the head and prothorax, the antennae at about the middle; 

 prothorax a fourth wider than long, the sides parallel and nearly 

 straight in almost three-fifths, then rounding gradually to the un- 

 constricted apex, which is somewhat more than half as wide as the 

 base; punctures close, partially subconfluent; smooth line narrow; 

 elytra not quite one-half longer than wide, evenly and gradually 

 parabolic, at the feeble humeri only very slightly wider than the 

 prothorax, twice as long; striae moderate, though fully half as wide 

 as the finely and remotely punctate flat intervals. Length (9) 

 2.2 mm.; width 0.75 mm. Florida (Haw Creek) efifetus Csy. 



Body narrowly elongate-suboval, convex, dull in lustre, black, the legs 

 not paler; squamules above rather narrow, whitish, well separated 

 and very evenly distributed, equally distinct throughout; they 

 form loose double lines on most of the strial intervals; scutellum 

 and thoracic lobe densely albido-squamose; white parallel scales 

 beneath very even and narrowly separated; beak in the female 

 straight and smooth, becoming arcuate and more sculptured, though 

 but little thicker, in nearly basal half, somewhat longer than the 

 head and prothorax; antennae at the middle; prothorax a fifth 

 wider than long, the sides feebly converging and not distinctly 

 arcuate, becoming gently and gradually rounded anteriorly, the 

 unconstricted apex three-fifths as wide as the base; punctures very 

 even, narrowly separated, the smooth line indistinct; elytra long, 

 two-thirds longer than wide, the sides feebly oblique and barely 

 arcuate, gradually more so posteriorly and evenly rounded at apex, 

 at the very moderate humeral swellings distinctly wider than the 

 prothorax, two and one-half times as long; grooves abrupt; intervals 

 with small but numerous confused punctures and from two to nearly 

 three times as wide as the grooves. Length (9) 2.5 mm.; width 

 0.85 mm. Guatemala (near the city) *pistorinus n. sp. 



16 — Punctures of the pronotum rather small and dense, but forming 

 only short and feebly defined rugulosity. Body elongate-oval, 

 black, the legs deep black; elongate scales above white, close-set 

 and conspicuous, gradually coarser and rather closer toward the 



