CURCULIONID 4iA—ALOPHIN AS. ips 
LIMALOPHUS (Azuos, Alophus, nom. gen.), gen. noy. 
The specimens representing this genus are not so well preserved as are 
those of the other genera of Alophinze, but enough to show that they can 
hardly be referred to any other genus, living or fossil. The head is small 
and the eyes transversely oval, with a very stout beak, which is, however, 
longer than the head, and smooth, with no median groove, though a fine 
lateral channel can be seen on either side above the scrobes. The antennal 
club is exceptionally slender. The thorax is broadest beyond the base, 
being somewhat tumid (more noticeably in one than in the other species), 
so that the thorax and elytra have independent curves. The third and 
fourth abdominal segments are together no longer, probably a little shorter, 
than the second. Both the species are of small size, smaller than usual 
among the Alophinz. 
The two species come from Green River, and one of them is also 
found at White river. 
Table of the species of Limalophus. 
Relatively long; rostrum stout, distinctly less than twice as long as thick; thorax 
very distinetly tumid, scarcely broader at base than at tip.-------.--- compositus. 
Relatively short; rostrum less stout, nearly or quite twice as long as thick; thorax 
but little tumid, distinctly broader at base than at tip..---....------- contractus. 
LIMALOPHUS COMPOSITUS. 
) r WS KS 
Pll x, Bio: 2: 
Body distinctly more than twice as long as high. Head small; eyes 
oval, transverse, a little pointed beneath; rostrum nearly half as broad again 
as the longer axis of the eye, about half as long again as thick, straight and 
nearly equal. Prothorax nearly half as broad or high again as long, bullate, 
hardly narrower in front than behind, densely punctate. Elytra one-fourth 
broader at base than the thorax, punctato-striate, the interspaces without 
lines of bristles, apparently flat and microscopically punctuate. 
Length, excluding rostrum, 3°75"; rostrum, 0°6™"; elytra, 2°7""; height 
of body, 1:75""; breadth of prothorax, 14"; of elytra, 1-75". 
