672 Coleopterological Notices, IV. 



not prominent; disk rather finely striate, the intervals wide, flat, not coarsely 

 but very densely, deeply, confusedly punctate. Abdomen clothed throughout 

 with large dense scales, which are sparse in the subbasal indentation and to- 

 ward the middle of the last three segments. Prosternum normal, rather nar- 

 rowly separating the coxae. Length 3.25 mm, ; width 1.25 mm. 



California (southern). 



This species is rather closely allied to suffusus, but differs in its 

 much more sparsely punctate head, in its coarser, denser punctures, 

 narrower lateral vittae, more uneven and more conspicuous vestiture 

 of the median parts of the pronotum, and in the denuded area 

 beneath, the latter being entirely wanting and clothed with large 

 dense normal scales in suffusus. It also differs in having the met- 

 episterna decidedly narrower, and the elytra covered with a dense 

 crust of scales which entirely conceal even the strias, the latter being 

 indicated by wide partings of the scales in suffusus. 



6 Barinus llltesceiis Lee. — Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, VIII, p. 218 (Bari- 

 lepton). 



Rather robust, oval, the upper surface only moderately convex, 

 black, the legs piceous-black ; integuments shining, densely clothed 

 with large ochreous scales, which are rather elongate, evenly dis- 

 tributed on the elytra, where they become gradually semi-erect 

 behind and denuded at the sides in more than basal half, also broadly 

 dense at the sides of the pronotum, the median glabrous area oval 

 in outline; under surface polished and with very minute remote 

 setiform squamules, which are abruptly dense and broader on the 

 met-episterna and at the sides of the abdomen behind. Beak thick, 

 strongly arcuate and punctured at base, three-fourths as long as the 

 prothorax, the transverse impression very broad; surface glabrous 

 but with a few very small, scarcely visible squamules near the an- 

 terior margin of the eye ; basal joint of the antennal funicle as long 

 as the next five ; club rather small, but slightly longer than the pre- 

 ceding four joints combined. Prothorax fully one-third wider than 

 long, the sides parallel and nearly straight in basal two-thirds, then 

 broadly rounded, convergent and scarcely at all constricted to the 

 apex, the latter scarcely more than one-half as wide as the base ; 

 disk rather coarsely and sparsely punctate, the punctures becoming 

 smaller and much denser anteriorly. Scutellum very small, tumid, 

 quadrate, glabrous and polished. Elytra scarcely perceptibly wider 

 than the prothorax and a little more than twice as long, parallel, 

 parabolically rounded in apical two-fifths, the subapical sinuation 



