Coleopterological Notices, IV. 675 



broad, triangular scales, almost evenly and quite sparsely distributed 

 throughout but more denuded and sparse along the sides of the 

 elytra, more broadly so toward base, and also in a small discal spot 

 near the apex ; on the under surface the scales are dense on the 

 met-episterna and toward the sides of the abdomen behind, else- 

 where sparse but only absent on that part of the mesosternum 

 bounding the middle coxal cavities externally. Head impunctate, 

 but with a few extremely minute feeble punctures anteriorly ; beak 

 glabrous, punctate, very thick toward base, with some large scales 

 bordering the eyes, much shorter than the prothorax ; basal joint of 

 the antennal funicle scarcely as long as the next four together ; club 

 moderate. Prothorax not quite as long as wide, the sides straight 

 and parallel or very feebly divergent to apical two-fifths, then 

 rounded and convergent, the constriction very broad and feeble ; 

 apex not more than three-fifths as wide as the base ; disk finely, 

 rather unevenly but not very closely punctate, the scales almost 

 uniformly distributed and sparse throughout ; impunctate line dis- 

 tinct, entire. Elytra just visibly wider than the prothorax and a 

 little more than twice as long, parallel, narrowed in apical third, then 

 obtusely rounded ; striae fine ; intervals flat, rather finely, unequally, 

 confusedly and not very closely punctate. Prosternum impressed, 

 the coxae large, prominent, rather narrowly separated. Length 3.7 

 mm. ; width 1.25 mm. 



Florida (Sumter Co.). Cab. LeConte. Represented by the 

 unique type, in which the last ventral segment has a rounded gla- 

 brous polished and extremely deep median excavation. 



BARILEPTON. 



LeConte— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 318. 



The species of Barilepton are probably the most slender of the 

 Barini. The beak is short, thick, arcuate, strongly compressed, 

 with the flanks crossed obliquely by the antennal scrobes, the latter 

 beginning near the upper margin and slightly beyond the middle. 

 The under surface of the head is frequently excavated transversely 

 as in Barinus, and the basal joint of the funicle is elongate. The 

 prosternum is broadly impressed and very narrowly separates the 

 coxae. One of the most remarkable characters of the genus is the 

 structure of the tarsi, in which however it strongly resembles Bari- 

 nus ; the four posterior tarsi are almost invariably longer than the 

 tibiae, and have the second and third joints dilated, the first being 



