78 TEKTIAEY EHYNCHOrUOROUS COLEOPTERA. 



;ni(l ('(jiial, loii^'tr tlian the prothorax; scape of" auteniu\> barely reaching 

 the tmnt iiiari;iii of the eye, hardly more than half as loiiy as the fuiiicle 

 and club t(),iietlier, the Joints of the funicle gradually widening so that the 

 dull is but littli' broader than its apical joints, which are broader than long. 

 1 'i( itiiora x \ ei-y tumid, densely and coarsely graniilose. Elytra very strongly 

 arched and very deej)ly and very sharply punctato-striate, the puncta cir- 

 cular: there are slight indications of median bristles in the interspaces. 



Length, exiduding rostrum, 5-6"""; rostrum, l-f)"""; height of body, 4""'. 



Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, No. 13612. 



CONIATUS Germar. 



It is on account of their rounded eyes and the tapering form of the 

 head and prothorax combined that I have placed here two sjjecies which 

 seem to be Alophinaj, but which can not be placed Avitli any other of the 

 genera, living or fossil, of this group. In one of the species, though not in 

 the other, the third and fourth segments of the abdomen are relatively 

 longer than in the other fossils of this family, and this is perhaps an indica- 

 tion that when better known these two species will have to ])e geuerically 

 separated. 



The dozen species belonging to this group are all Mediterranean and 

 most of them European. A single species has been found fossil in the 

 European Tertiaries at Aix and two species in our western beds, one at 

 Florissant, the other in the Gosiute fauna. The European species has noth- 

 ing specially in common with ours and is half or less than half the size of 



either of them. 



Table of the species of Coniatus. 



Rostrum arcuate, tapering, as long as the prothorax eviscer((ti(s. 



Rostrum straight, equvil, shorter than the prothorax refravtus. 



Coniatus evisceratus. 



PI. Ill, Figs. 1, 6. 



Head conically tapering, about one-third higher than long, the sur- 

 face posteriorly covered with excessively fine, transverse strias, anteriorly 



