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species of the genus, reaching but little beyond the prothoracic base. 

 Prothorax rounded, base a little narrower than the apex. Elytra elon- 

 gate, finely scabrous with a faint costulate effect. The entire upper 

 surface of the body is sprinkled with fairly long blackish hairs, most 

 likely the remains of a closer covering. Legs poorly preserved, rather 

 slender, hairy. Length, as preserved, 10.40 mm.; to elytral apices, 

 8.85 mm.; of elytron, 6.30 mm. 



Described from one specimen. 



Type No. 2,702 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 10,420 S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). No. 2,703, 2,704 M. C. Z. (No. 6,608, 10,917 S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.), represent the same species. 



I think there is but little doubt of this being a meloid, and it seems 

 placed better in Cantharis than elsewhere. The short antennae and 

 costulate elytra are seen in C. sphaericollis, common today in the 

 vicinity of Florissant, but the fossil has a somewhat differently shaped 

 head and pro thorax, finer sculpture, and apparently coarser vestiture. 



OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 

 CYPHUS FLORISSANTENSIS, sp. nov. 

 Plate 16, fig. 8. 



Form moderately stout. Beak short without basal constriction of 

 any kind but merging gradually into the head, marked by a fine median 

 line which extends back to a point about even with the hind margin 

 of the small round eyes. Antennae long, the scape slender, passing 

 the middle of the eye, funicular joints much longer than wide, club 

 oval, pointed. Prothorax broader than the head, base and apex about 

 equal, sides regularly but not strongly arcuate, surface finely granulose. 

 Elytra broken at apices but evidently narrowed behind the middle, 

 each with about eight series of small, sharp, rounded punctures, ar- 

 ranged in regular striae, those in each row separated ordinarily by a 

 little less than their own diameters. Interspaces broad, flat and nearly 

 smooth. Legs poorly preserved but stout. Length of fragment, 9 

 mm.; in life about 9.75 mm. 



Described from one specimen. 



Type. No. 2,705 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 8,029 S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). 



Resembles Cyphus in the form of the body but differs from recent 



