100 TERTIARY RHYNCHOPHOROUS COLEOPTERA. 
in any of our living species, and I can also discover no inferior tooth on the 
fore femora, the only pair preserved. The head is small and nearly smooth, 
the rostrum considerably and regularly arcuate, two-thirds as long as the 
elytra, neither punctured nor striate, but apparently smooth; scape of an- 
tenn just failing to reach the base of the rostrum, the funicle alone as long 
as the scape, its first joint as long as the second and third together, the 
others subequal, the second and third equal, the club ovate and rather stout. 
Prothorax fully half as high again as long, tapering with very full sides, 
very faintly and profusely punctulate. Elytra very faintly punctato-striate. 
Fore femora very stout, being just beyond the middle nearly half as wide 
as long; tibiae moderately slender, scarcely arcuate. scarcely longer than 
the prothorax. 
Length, excluding rostrum, 56"; rostrum, 2°5™"; elytra, 4™; height 
of body, 2-4™". 
Florissant, Colorado. One specimen, No. 1987. 
GRYPIDIUS Schénherr. 
This genus as now known contains only three north European species, 
of which two are common to the northern parts of North America. A single 
fossil species is known, and comes from Florissant. 
GRYPIDIUS CURVIROSTRIS 
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A single specimen represents a species a little larger than the wide 
spread G. equiseti (Fabr.) and with a much more strongly curved snout. The 
head is exceedingly short, buried in the thorax, the eye small, circular, 
with a smaller diameter than the rostrum; the latter more than twice as long 
as the head and thorax together, all but the basal fourth very strongly 
arcuate, moderately slender; scape reaching the base of the snout, its point of 
insertion uncertain but apparently just before the apical third, the funicle 
and club together apparently about half the length of the rostrum. Thorax 
well rounded, rapidly tapering so as to be almost demioval, higher at the 
base than long, densely and rather finely punctate. Elytra rather elongate 
with punctate strie. Second abdominal segment scarcely longer than the 
