554 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



Texas, three specimens ; Kansas and Colorado — LeConte. 



2 Pseildobaris llictuosa n. sp. — Rather broadly, almost evenly 

 oval, strongly convex, intense black and highly polished throughout. Head 

 minutely, sparsely punctate, the transverse impression rather strong; beak 

 densely punctate only on the sides behind the an ten use, somewhat tumid above 

 at base, strongly, evenly arcuate, slender and nearly one- third longer than 

 the prothorax in the female, rather thicker and but very slightly longer than 

 the latter in the male ; antenna? moderate, the second funicular joint unusu- 

 ally long and subequal to the next two together. Prothorax short, nearly one- 

 half wider than long, the sides broadly arcuate and convergent anteriorly, 

 gradually becoming parallel toward base, the apex broad, truncate, tubularly 

 but very briefly produced ; base transverse and straight laterally, the median 

 lobe one-third the total width, rounded and decidedly prominent ; disk strongly 

 convex, coarsely, very deeply and rather sparsely punctate, the punctures 

 fully one-half as wide as the scutellum and separated by their own widths or 

 more. Scutellum small, transverse, impressed. Elytra twice as long as the 

 prothorax, and, at the feebly tumid humeri, scarcely perceptibly wider than 

 the latter ; outline hemi-elliptical ; disk with coarse, very deep, not distinctly 

 punctate grooves, the intervals subequal, about one-third wider than the 

 grooves, each with a single series of shallow, rather remote and transversely 

 subrugulose punctures ; setse not at all visible except a small spot of white 

 squamules at the base of the third interval. Under surface somewhat sparsely 

 punctured. Length 3.5-3.7 mm. ; width 1.7-1.8 mm. 



Florida (Cedar Keys). 



This species is named anthracina Boh. in many cabinets, and 

 was placed in Aulobaris by LeConte (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XY, p. 

 289,), but is evidently not the species described under that name iu 

 the work of Schonherr. The phrases " thorax postice longitudine 

 fere latior," for a strongly transverse prothorax, and " [thorax] 

 supra fere planus . . . evidenter crebre . . . punctatus," for a strongly 

 convex, coarsely and sparsely punctate modification of this part, 

 and "elytra . . . thoracis . . . dimidio longiora," for fully twice as 

 long, will not at all answer for this insect. As no allusion to a 

 pygidium is made in the original description, it is possible that 

 Baridius anthr acinus Boh. may be a species of the genus Limno- 

 baris, but we shall probably never know definitely until the type 

 can be consulted. 



3 Pseildobaris discreta n. sp. — Elongate-oval, strongly convex, black 

 throughout and rather shining, the prothorax duller and alutaceous ; seta? 

 small, subrecumbent sparse but quite visible, not intermixed with longer 

 squamules but larger and coarser and forming a more or less distinct spot at 

 the base of the third and fifth intervals. Head and base of the beak opaque 

 and densely granulato-reticulate, the former minutely and obsoletely punctate, 



