?2 TERTIARY EHYNCJHOPHOROUS COLEOPTERA. 



(xreeii River, Wyomiug-, from tlie bluffs l)c4iin(l the town. Two sjieoi- 

 inciis, Nos. 7')() and 754, 977, U. S. (leological Survey. White i-iver, Utali, 

 iViiiii tlic vci-y lil^'hest ])eds on tlic northern buttes next the Colorado line. 

 < )iu' specimen, No. r»77, U. S. Geological Survey. 



LlMALOPHt'S f'ONTRACTlJ.S. 



PI. X, Fig. 3. 



Body barely more than twice as long as high. Head rather small ; eyes 

 oval and transverse, hardly jxjiuted beneath; rostrum scarcely broader than 

 the longer axis of the eye, nearly or (juite twice as long as broad, straiglit 

 or faintly arcuate, equal ; antennjw with a very sliglit club. Prothorax nearly 

 half as high again as long, the sides full but tapering, the base being decidedlv 

 bi-oadcr than the apex, the surface densely ])unctate. Elvtra more arched 

 than in the preceding species, at tlieir broadest not more thaii a tiftli Inoadcr 

 tlian tlie thorax, jiunctato-stria.te, the interspaces flat and sliglith- i-oiigli(>n('d. 



Lengtli,exc]u(iiiigro.strum, ;}-2r)'""'; rostrum, O-."")")"""; elvtra, 2-."."""; lieight 

 of body, l-d"""; breadth of prothorax, 1-55"""; of elytra, 1-8""". 



Green River, Wyoming, from the l)luils behind tlie town. Six speci- 

 mens, Nos. 711, 714, 732, 735, 742 and 991, 97(i, U. S. Ge(dogical Survey. 



GERALOPHUS (yepa/d?, Alophus, nom. gen.), gen. nov. 



l^ody comjiact, broad and stout, suboval, onlv about half as long again 

 as broad. Head sliort and abruptly smaller than the thorax. Eyes mod" 

 eratelv lariic, broad oval, au<l transverse; rostrum of variable len<>-th, Narvino- 

 from about half as long as the prothorax to as long as it, moderately stout, 

 slightly arcuate, with a distinct and deep su})erior median groove ; autenujie 

 inserted just l)eyoudthe middle of the rostrum, the scape not ver\- long Imt 

 reaching to the eye or to its posterior margin, th(> funicle and clul) together 

 about as long as the beak, tlie first two joints of the funicle long and sul)- 

 e(inal, the remaining five short and subecjnal, subquadrate, the club oval 

 and twice as broad as the funicle. Prothorax about one-fourth narrower 

 than the elytra, the basal lialf sube([ual, be\dnd rapidlv narrowing, the 

 whole nearly twice; as broad as long, and granulate and punctured, without 

 postocular lobes. Elytra, broail, well arched, puiu-tato-striate, the inter- 



