()T1()i;uyn;('11ii».i: — (Vj'iiiM. 49 



rapidh- and anlu'd, its .sui-faci' a little rou'di. The elytra are scan-flv longer 



tliaii flic lieii^ht of the Ixxly. aciitfly striate, with nither distant distini't 

 jiunetures. 



Lenirth of l.udy, 4-(r'"'; elytra, 3-_"""'; hei-lit of body, 3'""'. 



White ii\er, western Colorado, from the very lowest shales. ( )ne 

 siiccinicii. No. 541, IT. S. Geolog-icai Surscy. Womii inomitains, western 

 Colorado, from near the richest shales at suniinit of lihilVat head of Kast 

 Salt creek. ( )nc specimen, No. 0,')1, U. S. Geological Suryey. 



Tribe TANYMECINI. 



A siiijilc s])ecies of Tanyinecus occurs at (ireeii iJiver, and a species 

 of Tiiylacites has been described by Deichniiiller from Kutschlin, Bohemia. 



TANYMI<:CUS Germar. 



The Old Worhl possesses the largest nunil)er (.f s])ecies of this genus 

 in which ( iemmiiiL;-er and Harold in 1871 catalogued lift\-seyen species, 

 but besides the two which are found in the eastern half of the United States, 

 only two others are known from the New World, Mexico and Brazil pos- 

 sessing each one species. The only fossil species recognized is one found 

 at Green y{i\-er, Wyoming. 



Tanymecus seculorum. 



Tanyinecus H$culorum Scudd., Tert. Iiis. N. A., 475-47G, PI. vili, Fig. 22 (1890). 



No more specimens haye been found. 



Green River, V/yoming. Dr. A. S. Packard. 



Tribe CYPHINI. 



Three existing genera of this tribe, each with a single sjiecies (Entimus, 

 Syntomostylus, ami Artipus), are found in the White river and K'oan 

 mountains, l)ut have not been found apart from the Gosiute fiunia. In Ku- 

 rope a species of Naupactus is described from Oeningen l)y I leer, and 

 Smith mentions a species doiditt'ully referred to Strophosonuis as touml in 

 the Koceiie of I'eckhain, Mngland, 

 .MON X.\l i 



