668 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



Vestiture of the pronotum sparse and evenly distributed throughout, 

 although slightly sparser in a feebly defined, oblique line at each side, 

 extending from the middle at lateral fourth to the scutellar lobe, not at 

 all condensed toward the sides 9 linearis 



1 Barinus Mvittatus Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc.,XVII, p. 431 (Bari- 



lepton). 



Elongate-oval, convex, polished, black with a faint violaceo- 

 metallic lustre, the legs dark rufo-piceous ; vestiture of the dorsal 

 surface very minute except a broad vitta on each side, extending 

 from the apical margin of the pronotum to the elytral apex, of large, 

 broad, densely placed, yellowish- white scales, the meso- and meta- 

 sternal episterna and margins of the abdomen similarly clothed with 

 denser scales. Head excavated beneath ; front with a large feebly 

 impressed fovea but without transverse constriction, the beak stout, 

 cylindrical, scarcely compressed, evenly, moderately arcuate, three- 

 fourths as long as the prothorax, polished, coarsely punctured toward 

 base, the antennas inserted just bej^ond the middle, a little nearer 

 the upper than the lower margin, the basal joint of the funicle very 

 slender and as long as the entire remainder, the club small, elongate- 

 oval, as long as the four preceding joints combined. Prothorax not 

 quite as long as wide, feebly inflated at apical third, the sides thence 

 straight to the base ; subapical constriction strongly marked, the 

 apex two-thirds as wide as the base, the latter transverse, the basal 

 lobe obsolete ; disk rather coarsely but not very densely punctate, 

 the impunctate line narrow, irregular and entire. Scutellum small, 

 a little wider than long and rather deeply seated. Elytra equal in 

 width to the prothorax and twice as long, the sides evenly, gradu- 

 ally convergent from base to apex and very feebly arcuate, the apex 

 narrowly but obtusely rounded ; humeri not prominent ; striae fine 

 but deep and abrupt, the intervals wide, minutely, rather sparsely 

 and confusedly punctate, the fourth very narrow toward base. Pro- 

 sternum narrowly, moderately deeply sulcate along the middle, 

 separating the coxae by only one-third of their own width. Tarsi 

 very broad, the posterior as long as the tibiae, with the first joint 

 small but wider than long, the second and third equal in width and 

 both very strongly dilated, squamose above, densely pilose beneath, 

 the third with a narrow median emargination extending to basal 

 third ; fourth joint very slender, extending only slightly beyond 

 the lobes of the third, the claws small, parallel and completely con- 



