482 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



form of the scutellum. The prosternum is not distinctly impressed, 

 and the coxae are separated by slightly more than one-fourth of their 

 own width. 



9 Baris Sllbovalis Lee— Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi., Pliila., 1868, p. 363 (Bari- 

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



A large and remarkably isolated species, represented by the 

 original type, which is apparently still unique. The form is almost 

 evenly oval, very convex, intense black throughout, the integu- 

 ments very dull but smooth and minutely, strongly granulato- 

 reticulate. The beak in the female is thick, distinctly and evenly 

 arcuate, strongly punctured and about three-fourths as long as the 

 prothorax, the latter large, one-third wider than long, the sides 

 distinctly convergent and nearly straight to apical fourth, then 

 rounded and more convergent to the apex, the base straight and 

 unusually oblique from the middle, the lobe very small, the disk 

 with an ill-defined median impunctate line which does not attain 

 the apex, the punctures not very coarse but deep and separated by 

 rather more than their own widths. Elytra coarsely and deeply 

 grooved, the intervals flat, about one-half wider than the grooves, 

 each with a somewhat uneven series of small but deep, moderately 

 close-set punctures, broadly confused on the third and fifth, the setae 

 very minute and inconspicuous. Prosternum narrowly and feebly 

 impressed, the coxge separated by distinctly less than one-half of 

 their own width, the sides of the process strongly convergent. 

 Length 5.8 mm.; width 2.9 mm. 



Wisconsin. Cab. LeConte. There is no other species known to 

 me which at all approaches subovalis in general habitus. 



10 Baris lllbrica n. sp. — Oblong-oval, strongly convex, black through- 

 out, highly polished, the lustre quite distinctly aeneous. Head obsoletely 

 punctured, the beak finely, strongly, sparsely so, feebly arcuate, robust, two- 

 thirds as long as the prothorax, the basal transverse impression unusually 

 feeble ; antennae moderate, the club rather small. Prothorax large, scarcely 

 one-third wider than long ; sides feebly convergent and very slightly arcuate 

 to apical fourth, then strongly rounded, thence strongly convergent and nearly 

 straight for a short distance to the apex, which is transversely truncate ; base 

 three and one-half times as wide as the head, straight and feebly oblique from 

 the rather wide broadly and feebly rounded median lobe to the sides ; disk 

 with a wide but very ill defined elongate impunctate spot, the punctures 

 moderately coarse, sparse, somewhat deep, impressed, minutely umbilicate, 

 about one-third as wide as the scutellum and separated by nearly three times 

 their own diameters. Scutellum somewhat large, subquadrate, slightly trans- 



