670 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



type, which is in a perfect state of preservation. All of the punc- 

 tures of the upper surface, except where densely cov ered with scales 

 as described above, bear each a very small inconspicuous seta. 



3 Barinus squamolineatus Cas. — Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., II, p. 256. 



Elongate-oval, convex, black, the legs red; elytra coarsely, very 

 densely sculptured; upper surface in great part covered with large 

 white closely placed scales, which are replaced toward the sides of 

 the elytra by smaller browner squamules, becoming fine inconspic- 

 uous setae toward the humeri, also very inconspicuous on the first 

 interval except toward the scutellum, and in middle half of the 

 pronotum, except along the median line; pronotum in entire lateral 

 fourth and second elytral interval throughout clothed very densely 

 with large scales. Length 3.1-3.7 mm. ; width 1.2-1.3 mm. 



Illinois ; several specimens. This species is allied to cribricollis, 

 but differs in its slightly longer, less robust and arcuate beak in the 

 smaller punctures and much broader, denser lateral vitta of the pro- 

 notum, in the very much coarser, deeper and denser punctures, and 

 more conspicuous vestiture of the elytra, paler legs and in many 

 other characters. 



In my original description, the sculpture of the elytral intervals 

 is stated to be finely and feebly punctate; this mistake arose from 

 the fact that in the single type specimen, the dense scales in great 

 part covered and concealed the punctures ; in some denuded ex- 

 amples before me, however, they are readily seen to be coarse and 

 deep, and, in comparison with those of cribricollis, very large in- 

 deed. The types of both cribricollis and squamolineatus are 

 males. 



4 Barinus Sltfflisiis n. sp. — Elongate-oval, convex, black, with the 

 legs red, moderately shining but extremely densely covered throughout with 

 large brownish scales, becoming broadly white toward base of the sixth inter- 

 val, also feebly whiter on the second and fourth near the base and behind the 

 middle, also broadly white in lateral fourth of the pronotum and toward the 

 sides of the body beneath ; median half of the pronotum sparsely clothed with 

 slender but distinct squamules, becoming broad dense scales on the median 

 line toward base, the scutellum abruptly black and glabrous, small, triangu- 

 lar, widest behind and lying in a broad shallow depression between the elytra. 

 Head and beak glabrous but with an abruptly dense line of large scales border- 

 ing the eye anteriorly, the former finely but strongly, not very sparsely punc- 

 tate, the transverse constriction feeble but evident ; beak thick, compressed, 

 strongly arcuate and distinctly punctate toward base, straighter and feebly 

 flattened toward apex, about four-fifths as long as the prothorax in the female ; 



