Barin.« 483 



more rapidly rounding near the apex, which is tubulate and half 

 as wide as the base; punctures moderately small, separated medially 

 by nearly twice their widths, gradually dense and longitudinally 

 subrugulose laterally; smooth line distinct; elytra evenly parabolic, 

 a third longer than wide, distinctly wider than the prothorax but 

 only three-fourths longer; grooves deep, shining; intervals twice 

 as wide as the grooves, with fine and well spaced punctures, loosely 

 confused more or less on all the intervals; male abdomen distinctly 

 impressed medio-basally, the prosternum with a very deep but 

 unusually small perforation and two porrect spines, extending 

 beyond the apex. Length (cf ) 3.35 mm.; width 1.45 mm. Florida. 



surrufipes n. sp. 

 10 — Body oval or subventricose, smooth, the pronotal punctures small 



and rather inconspicuous 1 1 



Body narrow, parallel, the pronotum with rather coarse and conspicuous 

 punctuation, the vestiture of slender squamules more or less distinct; 

 size always very small; beak strongly sculptured in both sexes.. .32 



1 1 — Vestiture of slender sparse squamules distinct on the elytra 12 



V^estiture very fine, sparse and inconspicuous, sometimes distinct on the 



elytra at base 15 



12 — Body shorter, smaller in size and subventricose 13 



Body larger, elongate-oval in outline; beak more elongate • • 14 



13 — Body short and stout, rather shining and convex, deep black through- 

 out; beak in the male of the usual form, moderately thick and 

 sculptured, not as long as the prothorax, the antennae at four-sev- 

 enths; prothorax a fourth wider than long, with the sides broadly, 

 subevenly arcuate, becoming parallel and less arcuate basally, the 

 subtubulate apex half as wide as the base; punctures shallow, well 

 separated, becoming fine near the entire smooth line, the squamules 

 feebly evident laterally; elytra barely a fourth longer than wide, 

 broad, the sides feebly oblique and distinctly arcuate,. with the apex 

 broadly obtuse, a fifth wider than the prothorax and four-fifths 

 longer, the humeral prominences moderate but distinct; grooves 

 narrow, deep and with small distinct punctures, the intervale 

 between two and three times as wide as the grooves, finely, rather 

 sparsely and confusedly punctate throughout and with the slender 

 squamules whitish, rather close-set and conspicuous, in single lines 

 except on the second and third; squamules beneath very small, 

 slender and sparse but whitish and evident; prosternum of the male 

 with a large and very deeply perforate oval fossa and two well 

 developed porrect spines, extending beyond the head; abdominal 

 impression very faint. Length (cf ) 3.0 mm.; width 1.3 mm. Texas 



(Brownsville) mundula n. sp. 



Body more elongate and with relatively still smaller prothorax, the elytral 

 squamules not quite so distinct though evident, becoming rather 

 conspicuous at base, indistinct on the pronotum, notably evident 

 throughout beneath though sparse; color black, the lustre some- 

 what shining; beak in the female very slender, smooth, feebly 

 arcuate and as long as the head and prothorax, with a few punctures 

 and fine squamules at each side of the base above, the antennae 



