CURCULlUMD.l-: — CirilClJLlOXIN.E — ANXnOXOMINI. 1 I ,") 



tofjetlicr, oentlv arciuitc, and I()n;:,itiiiliiially iiionMir less striate. Protlmrax 

 coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, nearly twice as high as l(tn^^ Klytra 

 distinctly ])nnctato-stnato. 



Lenji'tli of IxmIv, excludini;- fostniiii, 'i"!!')""": nistnnu, O'Tr)""": heiylit 

 of l.ody at prothorax, M5"""; at nii.ldl.-of elytra, 1-G"'"'. 



Florissant, Colorado. Seven specimens, Nos 4714, G249, 8266, 8383 

 and 9854,8611, 8951, 8958. 



Anthonomus defossus. 



PI. V, Figs. 6, 11. 



AntlKDinmtis defossus Sciuld., lUill. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Siirv. Terr., ii: Sd (187G). 



IJody very stout and compact, the elytra considerably broader in the 

 middle than elsewhere. It is nearly as large as A. iKcmatopUfi iJoli., with a 

 slighth' more cm-ved rostrum, which is somewhat longer than the i)rothora.\, 

 slightly transverse eyes whi.li are rather large, and with more al)undant 

 pitting of tlie prothorax, which is also less obscured by hairs, 'i'lic licnd is 

 conical, fully half as broad again as long, delicately punctulate, and beneath 

 transversely striate, covered very spanseh' with ver\' fine, short. ;ilniosr in- 

 visible hairs, directed downward; the antennal s(;robes aj)pear to l)e rather 

 shallow. The jirothorax is covered with exactly similar hairs, very distant, 

 jipparently arising only on the sharp ridges between the jtuuctures with 

 which the surface is completely studded ; these punctures are raiher deep, 

 rounded, aboiit 0032""° in diameter, and as closely crowded as possil)h' : 

 tlie thoracic pleura are similarly pitted, but with a little less frequeiu \', and 

 therefore witli coarser bounding walls. IMie elvtra are coarsely ridged with 

 uine equidistant, stout, rounded costa-, O'l""" apart, the fourth from the outer 

 ixirder terminating between the conjoinecl apices of those on eitiier side of it; 

 they are rather more prominent and more (hstant than in A.luematopns; the 

 whole surface of the elytra, both costaj and furrows, is dull rugulose. The 

 legs are similar to those of the living species ineutioneil. but are .soniewliat 

 shorter. 



Length of body, excluding rostrum, •_'-_*"""; rostrum, (>-5"'"'; length of 

 eye, 018"""; breadth of same, Q-U"""; height at thorax, 0-75"'"'; at middle of 

 abdomen, 115""". 



