132 TERTIARY RHYNCHOPHOROUS COLEOPTERA. 



Ceuthorhynchus COMPACTUS. 

 ri. VII, Fio-. s. 



Body short ovate, Tiiucli less than twice as \oug as broad. Head small, 

 the sculjituring obscure: eyes moderately large, circular; beak slender, con- 

 siderably arcuate, slightly longer than head and thorax together, perhaps 

 striate. Prothorax nearly twice as high as long, rapidly tapering' from the 

 base, with little fullness, coarsely punctate. Elytra striate, perhaps punc- 

 tato-striate, with feeble punctuation in the interspaces. Tibia^ more or less 

 arcuate. 



Length, excluding rostrum, 2-5"""; rostrum,*)!)"""; height of body, 1 ■5"'". 



Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, No. I'i-iSS. 



Ceuthorhynchus degravatus. 

 PI. XI, Fig. 12. 



Body compact and stout, the head small and apparently smooth ; the 

 eye small, oval, transverse; rostrum slender and gently arcuate, but broken 

 in the only specimen seen, so that its length can not be determined. Pro- 

 thorax nearly one-half higher than long, without postocular lobes, tapering 

 with coiisideral)le fullness, the surface coarsel}' but very feeblv punctate. 

 Elytra much l)roader at base than the thorax, with apparently impunctate 

 or very feebly punctate stria*, the interspaces very broadly rounded, and 

 with feeble and very delicate ])unctuation. 



Length, excluding rostrum, 3"""; width of base of thorax, 1-2'"™; of 

 elytra, 1-75"'"'. 



Roan mountains, Avestern Colorado, from the richest beds at crest of 

 liluff overlooking head of East Salt creek. One specimen. No. 950, U. S. 

 Geological .Survey. 



Tribe BARINI. 



This tril)e is far better developed in the American than in the European 

 Tertiaries. In Europe there have been recognized only two species of 

 Baris, one (undescribed) at Aix, the other at Brunstatt; while in America 

 we have no less than four genera and eleven species, making this one of 



