480 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



angulate viewed in profile, and with a large elongate median fovea; beak very 

 short and robust, coarsely, deeply punctate, feebly arcuate, scarcely three- 

 fifths as long as the prothorax ; antennae moderate, the club bat slightly 

 longer than wide. Prothorax large, one-fifth wider than long, the sides slightly 

 convergent and nearly straight to apical fifth, then very abruptly rounded, 

 thence extremely convergent and straight to the apex, which is much less 

 than one-half as wide as the base, the latter transverse, the median lobe nearly 

 one-third of the total width, rounded ; disk with a narrow prominent median 

 line, the punctures moderately coarse, deep and decidedly dense, one-third 

 as wide as the scutellum and almost in mutual contact, uneven in shape. 

 Scutellum transverse, broadly, deeply impressed. Elytra a little wider than 

 the prothorax and about two-thirds longer, but very little longer than wide, 

 parallel, very obtusely rounded behind; humeral callus small and feeble; 

 disk with very coarse deep grooves, finely punctate at the bottom, the inter- 

 vals alternating in width, all much wider than the grooves, the punctures 

 coarse, close-set, broadly confused on all except the first, fifth and seventh, 

 where they form tolerably even single lines. Abdomen strongly punctate and 

 setose. Prosternum perfectly flat, separating the coxae by barely one-fourth 

 of their own width, the punctures dense and only moderately coarse. Length 

 6.0 mm. ; width 3.1 mm. 



Texas (Big Springs). Mr. H. F. Wickham. 



The single representative is a female and the species is allied to 

 sti^enua, differing however in many strongly marked features, 

 among which should be mentioned the much more obese form, 

 smaller, denser punctures, broadly confused on most of the elytral 

 intervals, the more prominent and subcariniform median line of the 

 pronotum and the relatively shorter beak. 



7 Baris strenua Lee. — Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1868, p. 363 (Bari- 

 dius) ; Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 291. 



The general form of this species, which is one of the largest of 

 the genus, is oblong-oval, robust and strongly convex, the surface 

 polished, black and deeply sculptured. The beak is short, moder- 

 ately stout and arcuate, and is scarcely two-thirds as long as the 

 prothorax in the female. The prothorax is but slightly wider than 

 long, with the sides distinctly convergent and almost straight nearly 

 to apical fifth, then strongly rounded, thence very strongly conver- 

 gent to the apex which is somewhat tubulate, the disk has a more 

 or less ill-defined abbreviated impunctate line, the punctures being 

 rather large, deep and separated by slightly less than their own 

 diameters. Scutellum strongly transverse, broadly, deeply im- 

 pressed, prominent posteriorly at the sides. Elytra abruptly about 

 one-fifth wider than the prothorax, one-fifth longer than wide and 



