110 TEETIAKY EHYNCHOPHOROUS COLEOI'TERA. 



CREMA8TURHYNCHU8 {xP^I-^'^'^rb?, pvy/j)^), o-cm. nov. 



The insect to which this name is given is vinqnestional)ly nearly alUed 

 to Antlionomus and Coccotorus, so far as its stnicture can be told. But it 

 dift'ers from them so clearly in one point, that I venture to separate it, viz, 

 in the simiosity of the suture at the sides of the body between the first and 

 second abdominal segments, a ch.aracter which I do not find in any other 

 genus of living Anthonomini. In other respects it closely resembles the 

 species I have here placed in Coccotorus. The beak is almost straight, and 

 nearly as long as the head and prothorax together; the eye large and trans- 

 verse, but not ajjproximate abo\'e; all the femora are stout, but inoi-e strongly 

 clavate, and the segments of the abdomen are of suberpial length. 



A single species is known, and comes from Florissant. 



Cremastorhynchus stabilis. 

 PI. VI, Fig. 9. 



The body is rather stout and full, evidently tapering considerably for- 

 ward from the liase of the thorax. Head very short and fulh' twice as 

 broad as long, the beak straight or idmost straight, moderately slender, and 

 but little shorter than the head and prothorax together; surface rather feebly 

 and finely punctate, the pinictures more or less run together longitudinally. 

 Thorax rather rapidly tapering from the base, more than half ;is high again 

 as long, rather coarsely and closely punctate, with numerous fine hairs. 

 Elytra distinctly puiictato-striate, the pi;ncta separated by their own diame- 

 ters, the interspaces sparsely and faintly punctate, and sparsely clothed with 

 rather coarse hairs, each as long as the width of the interspaces. 



Length, excluding rostrum, 4-75™'"; rostrum, l-'iS™""; height at Ijase of 

 thorax, 1-G5"""; at middle of abdomen, 2-35'"". 



Florissant, Colorado. Three specimens, Nos. 8986, 13018, and of the 

 Princeton collection, 1-562. 



ANTHONOMUS Germar. 



A genus rich in species, over a hundr-ed of which are known. It occurs 

 in nearly every (juurter of the globe, but is richest in numbers in America. 

 In North America alone we have more than forty species widely distributed, 



