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This species has been very troublesome to place. It seems best 

 assigned in the position here given and if it should occur again in 

 collections from these shales will readily be known by the pe- 

 culiar sculpture. 



Anthaxia Esch. 



A. EXHUMATA JVtcl-h. Station number 14. A paired specimen in rather 

 poor condition and a little smaller than my type was collected by Geo. N. 

 Eohwer. 



]\Ielanophila Esch . 



M. COCKERELL.E D. sp. (Plate III, Fig. 5.) Form only moderately 

 elongate, subparallel at sides. Head much broader than long, reticulately 

 sculptured, similarly to the prothorax but a little more finely. Prothorax 

 damaged in front but about one and three-quarters times as broad as long, 

 the apparently undamaged side straight, surface reticulate as in the re- 

 cent M. consputa, M. intrusa or M. ceneola. Elytra apparently finely 

 scabrously punctate not pointed nor truncate but moderately conjointly 

 rounded at the apex. Legs wanting. Length from front of head to ab- 

 dominal apex, 10.70 mm.; of elytra, 5.85 mm. "Width across middle of 

 elytra, 3.90 mm. 



Station number 14. Two specimens, the collector of the type not speci- 

 fied, of the co-type, Mrs. "W. P. Cockerell. The type is in the Museum of 

 the University of Colorado, the co-type in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



This insect resembles (by description) none of the known 

 Florissant Buprestidae. It is much larger than Anthaxia ex- 

 humata and much smaller than Chrysohothris hay dent. While of 

 about the same size as C. gaJiani, that species must be very dif- 

 ferently proportioned, since Professor Cockerell gives the length 

 of the elytra as about 8.00 mm., as against 5.85 mm. in the pres- 

 ent insect. Compared with recent forms, it was probably most 

 like M. intnisa in general appearance. The generic reference is 

 based on the size, form and sculpture, all of which are matched 

 in recent species of MelanopliiJa in my collection. The cotype is 

 slightly smaller than the type, but otherwise does not differ. It 

 shows the large eye with straight inner border common to recent 

 MelanophiltK and particularly noticeable in M. acuminata and 

 M. atropurpurea. 



M. HAXDLiRSCHi n. sp. (Plate III, Fig. 6.) Form elongate, subpar- 

 allel, but broadest behind the middle of the elytra. Head long, surface 



