104 TEKTIAliY UHYNCUOPHO liCUS COLEOPTEEA, 



NUMITOR CLAVIGER. 

 PL II, Fig. 6. 



Head feebly punctate, the eye very large, removed from the protliorax, 

 rounded ovate, transverse; rostrum moderately stout, moderately and reg'u- 

 larly arcuate, as long as liead and protliorax togetlier, ap]>arently feelily 

 punctate. Protliorax a third higher than long, tapering only next the ajiex, 

 gently arched above, heavily and })rofusely punctate. Elytra punctat(i- 

 striate, but apart from that with distant, very deep and sharp, rather small 

 circular puncta. Under surt'aco profusely and rather heavily punctate, as 

 are apjiarently the thickened jiortions of the femoi-a. 



Length, excluding rostrum, 3'5'""'; rostrum, I'o"'™; elytra, 2'2r)™'"; middle 

 femora, l-To"""; height of body, 2""". 



Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, Nos. 11283 and 13(110. 



SMICRORllYNCHUS ((7yu/«p6?, pi^ypjo?), gen. iiov. 



I venture to discriminate from Sinicronyx and its allies among the 

 Desmorhines a little weevil having the general form and aspect of 1 )esmoris 

 and agreeing well with it in size, but more nearly allied to the minuter 

 species of Smicronyx in the e(jual length of the second and third joints 

 of the funicle of the antcniiic; it differs from all the genera of this group in 

 the e(|uality of all three of the basal joints of the funicle. The beak is as 

 long as the head and jimthorax together, marked by a basal constrictinn, 

 and is slig-htly enlargetl throughout its apical half; the antennae are inserted 

 before the middle of the rostrum, liut the scape barely reaches the eyes ; 

 the first, second, and third joints of the funicle are a little elongated, equal, 

 and equally slender, each about twice as long as broad; the remaining joints 

 are a little shorter, the clul) rntlicr stout ovate. Protliorax apparently with- 

 out postocular lobes. The Ixxly is well ax'ched, and highest in the middle 

 of the abdomen, behind whidi tlic elytra are strongly though not aliruptly 

 decliveiit. 



A single species is known, and comes from Florissant 



