OTIOKIIYNCIUD-E — miALilYl^EKlNI. 31 



of ( )tiorliyncliid<'E, for Heydeu describes aLipanis from 8ie])los, and (Jiebel 

 one from \\}i, mentioned and figured first by Curtis. Besides, two species 

 of Anisorhynchus liave been described and figured from Kutschlin ;iiid 

 Corent by Deichmiiller and Oustal(^t, and two of Hracliyderes from Aix l)v 

 the latter. Weyenbergh also claims that Anisorhynchus occurs at Solen- 

 hofen in the Brown Jura. 



EPICURUS Laporte. 



This is an exclusively American type of weevil, far more abundant in 

 tropical and subtropical than in temperate America, l)ut three or four species 

 occur in our southern states, including one as far north as Pennsylvania. 

 Three species, possibly to be referred to two, are found in the western 

 Tertiaries, though none of them are found at Florissant. It seems to be 

 the prevailing type at Green river, White river, and the Roan mountains, 

 and may be regarded as one of the characteristic featm-es of the Gosiute 

 fauna. 



Table of the species of Epiccerus. 



Larger species, exceeding S-o""" in length exclusive of rostrinu exanimis. 



Smaller species, not exceeding 5"""' in length. 



Striffi of elytra more narrowly separated; eyes transversely ovate saxatilis. 



StriiB of elytra more widely separated ; eyes circular effossm. 



Epicurus exanimis. 



Eudiagogus exanimis Scxidd., Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., ii, US (1876). 

 Epicwrm exanimis Scudd., Bull. IJ. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., iv, 7(i5 (187.S) ; Tert. 

 In.s. N. A., 479-tSO, Pi. VII, Fig. 31, PI. viii, Fig.s. .io, .{1, .{8, 4:,' (I8!t(i). 



This is the commonest species in the Green river beds. Twent\-three 

 additional specimens have been found, consisting mostly of elvtra only, 

 though half a dozen of them preserve the rest of the body as well, or parts 

 of it. From these it may be stated in addition to the original description 

 that the fourth and fifth abdominal segments together are about equal to 

 either the second or tifrh ; tliat tlie first and .second segments are separated 

 by a suture strongly and rather widely arcuate in the mid<lk', and that the 

 intercoxal piece of the metasternum is arcuate in front; the abdomen is 

 broadest at the first seguient and naiTows rather rapidly beliind. The 



