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Mr. T. D. A. Cockeroll on Fossil Arthropods 



Bartonian, Basfshot Beds; Bcnirnemoutli {J. S. Gardner). 

 Brit, Mas. 19000 ; also 19005, which seems to be the 

 reverse, or in auy eveut the same species. 



Fig. 3. 



Ophryattites gardneri, Ckll. 



Tliis represents a large weevil, the whole insect doubtless 

 15 mm. long in life. It is in all respects very similar to 

 Ophryastes yrandis, Scudd., from the Eocene of Colorado, 

 but the punctures are not connected by longitudinal striaj 

 as in O. yrandia. Ophryastites is used by Scuddcr for fossil 

 insects of this adinity, but of uncertain generic position. 



Baris (?) palaophilus, sp. n. (Fig. 4.) 



Elytron 3*2 mm. long and about V7 mm. broad ; shaped 

 as in B. interstitialiit, Say. Convex, with ten rows of closely 

 ])laccd elongate punctures. The pnnctures are about 80 /i 

 long, and the intervals between them are about 50 /a. The 

 rows are about llOyu, apart. 



Baris (!•') palaophilus, Ckll. 



Bartonian, Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (.7. R Gardner). 

 Brit. Museum, 19010. 



So far as can be seen, this might belong to Baris. There is 

 a superficial resemblance to Geralophus, from the Florissant 

 Miocene ; but in Gera/op/ni.t the small j)unctures are not 

 over a third as long as the distance between the rows. 



