Coleopterological Notices, IV. 639 



differ only in being a little less robust and less polished, with the 

 beak in the female not longer than the head and prothorax, and, in 

 the male, distinctly shorter than the latter, this sex having two long 

 slender prosternal processes. 



15 Limnobaris puteifer n. sp. — Oblong-oval, moderately convex, 

 black, rather shining and subglabrous throughout, the vestiture consisting 

 of very minute remote setiform squamules, more distinct beneath than above. 

 Head minutely, sparsely punctured, deeply inserted, the transverse constric- 

 tion very feeble ; beak in male rather stout, evenly cylindrical, feebly arcuate, 

 three-fourths as long as the prothorax, roughly, deeply punctured and sparsely 

 squamulose ; antenna? short, inserted beyond the middle, the basal joint of 

 the funicle robust, not as long as the next three, the second one-half longer 

 than wide and one-half longer than the third, outer joints gradually trans- 

 verse and coarctate, club nearly as in confinis. Prothorax about one-third 

 wider than long, the sides feebly convergent from the base and slightly arcu- 

 ate, the apical constriction strong ; apex a little more than one-half as wide 

 as the base, the latter transverse ; median lobe very small, feeble ; disk alu- 

 taceous, rather finely sparsely and not deeply punctate, the impunctate line 

 passing only slightly beyond the middle. Scutellum small, oblong. Elytra 

 nearly one-third wider than the prothorax and two and one-half times as long, 

 oblong, parallel, evenly rounded in apical third, the humeri scarcely promi- 

 nent ; disk rather finely, abruptly, evenly striate, the intervals fiat, about 

 three times as wide as the grooves, each with a single series of fine remote 

 punctures. Abdomen rather closely punctured toward the sides, sparsely in 

 the middle, the punctures fine. Prosternum with a large oval extremely deep 

 excavation in the middle, and with a short straight acute and very oblique 

 process before each coxa, the coxae separated by two-thirds of their own width. 

 Length 3.0 mm. ; width 1.25 mm. 



Indiana ? 



This species bears an extreme resemblance to confinis, being 

 identical in sculpture and vestiture, but the ante-coxal processes 

 are much more developed, the elytra relatively wider and longer, 

 the second joint of the antennal funicle more elongate, and the pro- 

 sternum differs radically in having a large extremely deep median 

 excavation. A single male, without definite indication of locality, 

 but in all probability from the region indicated. 



16 Limnobaris .confinis Lee. — Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 317 



(Centrinus). 



Oblong-oval, moderately convex, black throughout, shining, sub- 

 glabrous, the vestiture consisting of very small sparse and subre- 

 cumbent setse which, on the elytra, are arranged in single incon- 

 spicuous series. Beak in the male thick, cylindrical, nearly straight, 



