Coleopterological Notices, IV. 561 



The antennae are somewhat peculiar. They are slender, the joints 

 of the fanicle becoming but slightly wider toward apex, and with 

 the club very small, of imperfect development and probably possess- 

 ing less than the ordinary degree of sensitiveness ; the several joints 

 are not defined by distinctly traceable sutures, and the vestiture is 

 coarse and somewhat sparse, although tolerably uniform through- 

 out. 



1 Microbaris galTestonica n. sp. — Subcylindrical, strongly-convex, 

 polished, black throughout. Head minutely, the beak rather coarsely and 

 densely punctate, the latter subimpunctate toward apex and broadly along the 

 middle, slender, evenly, strongly arcuate and about two-fifths longer than the 

 prothorax ; antennae slender, scape short, inserted behind the middle, funicle 

 slender, the joints coarctate and but slightly transverse toward apex, the first 

 not as long as the next three, the second and third subequal and each dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide, the fourth not at all wider than long, club small, 

 elongate-oval, compressed, sparsely pubescent and rather shining, as long as 

 the preceding four joints together, its structure not distinct. Prothorax fully 

 two-fifths wider than long, the sides broadly, strongly arcuate in basal half, 

 becoming strongly convergent and straight but not in the least constricted 

 toward apex, the latter one-half as wide as the base, feebly arcuate ; base 

 transverse, the median lobe broad and very feeble ; disk wider at basal third 

 than at base, with a very narrow ill-defined impunctate line, the punctures 

 moderately large, about one-half as wide as the scutellum and dense but not 

 polygonally distorted. Scutellum very small, rounded. Elytra one-half longer 

 than wide, a little more than twice as long as the prothorax and very slightly 

 wider than the disk of the latter, cylindrical in basal two-thirds, then gradually, 

 parabolically rounded, the humeral tuberosities obsolete ; disk with extremely 

 fine but deep and abrupt impunctate stria?, the intervals flat, subequal, four 

 or five times as wide as the striae, each with a singe series of very minute 

 remote and feeble punctures, each bearing a smallbut distinct subrecumbent 

 silvery seta. Abdomen not very finely, strongly but rather sparsely punctured. 

 Legs short, moderately slender. Length 1.6 mm. ; width 0.65 mm. 



Texas (Galveston). 



A single specimen, the sex of which is somewhat doubtful. 



TRH HOB IRIS. 



LeConte— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 287. 



The genus defined under this name by LeConte is one of the 

 most highly specialized of the present group of Barini. It is not 

 at all closely allied to Pseudobaris, although assigned at the present 

 time to the section containing that genus because of the similarity 

 in structure of the tarsal claws ; these differ somewhat, however, 

 in being occasionally slightly unequal in length. It has no special 



