OTIORHYNCHIDA—BRACHYDERINI. BF | 
of Otiorhynchide, for Heyden describes a Liparus from Sieblos, and Giebel 
one from Aix, mentioned and figured first by Curtis. Besides, two species 
of Anisorhynchus have been described and figured from Kutschlin and 
Corent by Deichmiiller and Oustalet, and two of Brachyderes from Aix by 
the latter. Weyenbergh also claims that Anisorhynchus occurs at Solen- 
hofen in the Brown Jura. 
*- EPICAERUS Laporte. 
This is an exclusively American type of weevil, far more abundant in 
tropical and subtropical than in temperate America, but three or four species 
occur in our southern states, including one as far north as Pennsylvania. 
Three species, possibly to be referred to two, are found in the western 
Tertiaries, though none of them are found at Florissant. It seems to be 
the prevailing type at Green river, White river, and the Roan mountains, 
and may be regarded as one of the characteristic features of the Gosiute 
fauna. 
Table of the species of Epicerus. 
Larger species, exceeding 5°5™™ in length exclusive of rostrum............. exanimis. 
Smaller species, not exceeding 5™™ in length. 
Striz of elytra more narrowly separated; eyes transversely ovate ...... saxvatilis. 
Striz of elytra more widely separated; eyes circular ................... effossus. 
Epic@RUs EXANIMIS. 
Eudiagogus exanimis Scudd., Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Sury. Terr., 1, 58 (1876). 
Epicerus exanimis Seudd., Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., Iv, 765 (1878) ; Tert. 
Ins. N. A., 479-480, Pl. vu, Fig. 31, Pl. vin, Figs. 30, 31, 38, 42 (1890). ~ 
This is the commonest species in the Green river beds. Twenty-three 
additional specimens have been found, consisting mostly of elytra only, 
though half a dozen of them preserve the rest of the body as well, or parts 
of it. From these it may be stated in addition to the original description 
that the fourth and fifth abdominal segments together are about equal to 
either the second or fifth; that the first and second segments are separated 
by asuture strongly and rather widely arcuate in the middle, and that the 
intercoxal piece of the metasternum is arcuate in front; the abdomen is 
broadest at the first segment and narrows rather rapidly behind. The 
