150 TEKTIARY KHYNCHOPHOEOUS COLEOPTERA. 



sliowing- at the same time. The head is sliort and basally broad; the 

 rostrum verv sh^uder, reaching forward so as to sliow nearly as hjuy as tlie 

 pronotuni. Pmnotum subrugulose, the gTauuhitious faint, and ol)sfure next 

 the middle ; on the sides moderately large and (hstant, lietvveen the two 

 .smaller, more numenms, and sliowing a tendency to a transverse arrange- 

 ment. Elvtrn witli numerous equidistant .strife, apparently about twenty 

 in luimber. 



Length of body, <;xcluding rostrum, 13"""; breadth of same, <l"""; length 

 of rostrum in advance of head, as seen from above, 2 •2'"'"; breadth, 0-55""". 



Flori.ssant, Colorado. One specimen, No. 414. 



Tribe CALANDRINI. 



A species of Calandra, according to Pictet, was recognized by Serres 

 at Aix, and alone represents this tribe in the European Tertiaries. In 

 America two s})ecies found in tlie Closiute fauna, and consisting of elytra 

 only, are I'eferred to C'alandrites. 



CALANDRITES (Calandra, nom. gen.) gen. nov. 



Under this head I place a couple of species represented only by elytra 

 which seem froni their elongate form and the character of their markings to 

 be not far removed from the much smaller species of the old genus Calan- 

 dra, though it is certainly possible that they may belong in a ^'ery different 

 grouj). They both l)elong to rather large species, and agree in having ten 

 punctured strise. 



Both come from the Roan mountains, Colorado, and Green River, 

 Wyoming. 



Tdhle of the species of Calandrites. 



Elytra! striii^ i-elatively broad and shallow, the punctures dull and coarse. . . .(hfesstis. 

 Elytral stri.e relatively sliaii) aiul deep, the jjunctures fine and deep cinerafiiis. 



Calandrites defessus. 



PI. XII, Fig. 1.5. 



None of the s|)(H'imens preserved are very perfect or well preserved, 

 but together they show that the elytron was about two and a third times 



