ABT. 1 TERTIARY INSECTS FROM ARGENTINA — COCKERELL 5 



CURCULIONITES WIELANDI, new species 



Plate 1, fig. 8 



Elytron 4 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide; dark reddish brown, apex 

 obtuse; nine rows of rather small punctures, obsolete in apical 

 region. 



Sunchal, Argentina, in rock of Tertiary age. Named after Dr. G. 

 K. Wieland, who was the first to find fossil insects in Argentina. 



Holotirpe.—Csit. No. 70815, U.S.N.M. 



TENEBRIONITES INCLINANS, new species 



Plate 1, fig. 7 



Elytron 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; brown, base broadly truncate, 

 apex obtusely subangulate, surface finely rugulose, without punc- 

 tures or striae; a short angulate ridge near scutellar margin. 



Sunchal, Argentina, in rock of Tertiary age. 



Holotype.— Cat. No. 70816, U.S.N.M. 



Certainly not congeneric with Tenebrionites anglicus Cockerell, the 

 type of the genus, but placed here because of a certain general re- 

 semblance to Tenebrionidae. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 



Fig. 1. Otiorhynchites aterrimus. 



2. Cossonus devoratus. 



3. Anthonomus sunchalensis. Type. 



4. Anthonomus sunchalensis (Another example.) 



5. Curculionites harringtoni. 



6. Curculionites jujuyensis. 



7. Tenebrionites inclinans. 



8. C^irculionites wielandi. 



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