CURCULIONID©®—CURCULIONIN/—CLEONINI. 95 
EKOCLEONUS (’7@s, Cleonus, nom. gen.), gen. noy. 
[ am constrained to propose a new generic name for an insect evi- 
dently belonging to the Cleonini, although it is imperfectly known, for it 
can not be brought into any of the known genera from the structure of the 
antenne. The general appearance of the insect is that of a short-snouted 
Lixus, were not the head so much longer, it being more than half as long as 
the prothorax, and the arcuate, equal, blunt-pointed snout scarcely longer 
than the head; the eye is circular and not very large, situated in the middle 
of the head; the scape of the antennze does not extend back to the base of 
the snout by the length of the first joint of the funicle, while the funicle 
alone is nearly as long as the snout, its first joint slender and longest, the 
remainder stout and subequal, the seventh subglobular and in no way form- 
ing a part of the large fusiform club. The thorax is of about equal height 
and length, scarcely tapering. The base of the elytra is sinuate. The fore 
legs are rather slender and not very long. 
A single species is known from Florissant. 
EOcLEONUS SUBJECTUS. 
PEvn Bios d-. Pl xr Wies 2 
“ead and rostrum delicately and profusely punctate, on the head more 
or less confused in a general longitudinal direction, and more or less vermicu- 
late. Thorax less delicately punctate, transversely and briefly vermiculate, 
with faint signs both here and on top of the head of a fine short pile. Elytra 
with very faint stria, and clothed with short delicate pile, which appears to 
be arranged in overlapping transverse rows. Fore tibia as long as the ros- 
trum. Only the base of the elytra is preserved. 
Length of head and thorax, excluding rostrum, 3""; rostrum, 1°5""; 
9mm 
height of body, 2™". 
Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, No. 5355. 
CLEONUS Schonherr. 
A genus rich in species, of which nearly two hundred are catalogued, 
very generally confined to the Old World, where they are found in all lati- 
