Coleopterological Notices, IV. 535 



This is the only Onychobaris which has been discovered in the 

 true Pacific fauna. It is represented by the unique type in the 

 LeConte cabinet, said to have been taken near San Francisco. 



16 Onycliolbaris remota n. sp. — Oval, strongly convex, not very- 

 robust, black with a piceous tinge, the integuments smooth and alutaceous, 

 minutely and densely granulato-reticulate, setse very minute and short. Head 

 finely but strongly punctate anteriorly, the transverse impunctate line mark- 

 ing the feeble impression foveate in the middle ; beak finely but deeply, 

 densely punctate throughout, with a fine median impunctate line, rather 

 stout, strongly, evenly arcuate, not more than four-fifths as long as the pro- 

 thorax ; antennae normal, the second funicular joint fully one-third longer 

 than the third, the club rather large, evenly ovoideo-fusiform, pointed, 

 moderately abrupt. Prothorax rather long, scarcely one third wider than 

 long, the sides subparallel or extremely feebly convergent to apical fourth, 

 then strongly rounded and convergent to the apex which is subtubulately 

 constricted ; base transverse, the median lobe broad, strongly, evenly rounded 

 and prominent ; disk with a narrow but well marked and subentire median 

 line, the punctures abrupt, perforate, rather deep, not very dense, separated 

 by distinctly less than their own widths and about one-third as wide as the 

 scutellum, slightly smaller near the median line. Scutellum moderate, trans- 

 verse. Elytra parabolic behind the humeri, quite distinctly longer than wide, 

 one-half longer than the prothorax, and, at the small and feebly prominent 

 humeri, but slightly wider than the latter ; disk not very coarsely but deeply 

 and abruptly striate, the intervals subequal, flat, about one-half wider than 

 the grooves, each with a single series of rather coarse, subtransverse and dis- 

 tant punctures. Abdomen not very densely punctured. Length 3.7 mm. ; 

 width 1.7 mm. 



Texas (El Paso). 



The type appears to be a male, the abdomen being very feebly 

 flattened and more sparsely punctured in the middle near the base, 

 while the type of distans is apparently a female ; but the two forms 

 differ so greatly in bodily form and otherwise, that I regret to 

 believe there is but little doubt of their mutual distinctness. 



Remota differs from distans, irrespective of the shorter beak which 

 may possibly be a sexual character, in its more elongate-oval form, 

 in its much less transverse, more coarsely and pronouncedly more 

 densely punctured prothorax, with narrower median line, and in its 

 longer and more coarsely striate elytra. 



17 Onychobaris distans Lee— Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1868, p. 

 363 (Baridius) ; Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 296. 



A distinct species, moderate in size, somewhat robust and convex, 

 oblong-oval, black, with the integuments feebly shining, alutaceous 



