476 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



abruptly or strongly tubulate at apex, often in fact without distinct 

 trace of constriction, and the body is conspicuously clothed with 

 slender white scales, almost uniformly distributed above, but more 

 rounded and becoming denser toward the sides beneath. The 

 antennae are almost similar, but the club is smaller and not so 

 attenuate. The beak is strongly sculptured and rather thick in the 

 male, much longer, nearly smooth and cylindric in the female. The 

 type of Trichodirabius is Centrinus canus Lee, from Florida, and 

 the Texan Centrinus longulus Lee, of which I now have a male 

 and female from Brownsville, also belongs here. The following is a 

 hitherto undescribed species: 



*Trichodirabius indutus n. sp. — Elongate-oval, convex, deep black 

 throughout, alutaceous, clothed closely above with linear white scales, 

 confusedly and closely arranged on all the strial intervals, slightly 

 separated beneath, but narrowly dense along the sides of the body; 

 beak in the female long, cylindric, smooth, black and evenly, moderately 

 arcuate, abruptly squamose at base and slightly longer than the head and 

 prothorax; the antennae slightly behind the middle and black; pro- 

 thorax between a fourth and third wider than long, the sides feebly 

 converging, broadly and subevenly arcuate to a slight apical sinus, 

 defining the feebly subtubulate apex, which is fully half as wide as the 

 base; punctures moderately strong, close to well separated, the smooth 

 median line distinct and entire; scutellum flat, quadrate and nude; 

 elytra fully four-fifths longer than wide, with parallel and arcuate sides, 

 gradually obtusely rounding behind, at the middle slightly wider than 

 the prothorax, evidently more than twice as long; striae moderate, dis- 

 tinct by reason of abrupt partings of the vestiture; intervals alternating 

 somewhat, two to three times as wide as the striae, finely, unevenly and 

 loosely punctulate. Length (9) 3-9-5-0 mm.; width 1.4-1.8 mm. 

 Mexico (Vera Cruz), — Wickham. Four specimens. 



The antennal club is relatively very small, oval, the first two 

 funicular joints elongate, the anterior coxae separated by nearly 

 their own width, the third and fourth abdominal segments glabrous 

 in anterior half, somewhat as in Trichobaris, and the femora are as 

 conspicuously albido-squamulose as the median parts of the under 

 surface. This species is allied to longulus Lee, but is more elongate 

 and has denser punctuation and vestiture; my four specimens are 

 females. 



Barilepis n. gen. 

 The body in this genus is abbreviated, oblong-suboval, densely 

 clothed with large scales above and beneath, the beak rather short, 



