78 TERTIARY RHYNCHOPHOROUS COLEOPTERA. 
and equal, longer than the prothorax; scape of antennze barely reaching 
the front margin of the eye, hardly more than half as long as the funicle 
and club together, the joints of the funicle gradually widening so that the 
club is but little broader than its apical joints, which are broader than long. 
Prothorax very tumid, densely and coarsely granulose. Elytra very strongly 
arched and very deeply and very sharply punctato-striate, the puncta cir- 
cular; there are slight indications of median bristles in the interspaces. 
Length, excluding rostrum, 5-6"; rostrum, 1:5""; height of body, 4™". 
Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, No. 13612. 
CONIATUS Germar. 
It is on account of their rounded eyes and the tapering form of the 
head and prothorax combined that I have placed here two species which 
seem to be Alophinz, but which can not be placed with any other of the 
genera, living or fossil, of this group. In one of the species, though not in 
the other, the third and fourth segments of the abdomen are relatively 
longer than in the other fossils of this family, and this is perhaps an indica- 
tion that when better known these two species will have to be generically 
separated. ; 
The dozen species belonging to this group are all Mediterranean and 
most of them European. <A single species has been found fossil in the 
Kuropean Tertiaries at Aix and two species in our western beds, one at 
Florissant, the other in the Gosiute fauna. The European species has noth- 
ing specially in common with ours and is half or less than half the size of 
either of them. 
Table of the species of Coniatus. 
Rostrum arcuate, tapering, as long as the prothorax.............-.....- -evisceratus. 
Rostrum straight, equal, shorter than the prothorax.................--.-- refractus. 
CONIATUS EVISCERATUS. 
Pla, ies, 1,5: 
Head conically tapering, about one-third higher than long, the sur- 
face posteriorly covered with excessively fine, transverse strive, anteriorly 
