CURCULIONID Aa—CURCULIONIN Z—ANTHONOMINI. 55) 
together, gently arcuate, and longitudinally more or less striate. Prothorax 
coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, nearly twice as high as long. Elytra 
distinctly punctato-striate. 
Length of body, excluding rostrum, 2°65™"; rostrum, 0°75™"; height 
of body at prothorax, 1:15"; at middle of elytra, 1-6". 
Florissant, Colorado. Seven specimens, Nos. 4714, 6249, 8266, 8383 
and 9854, 8611, 8951, 8958. 
ANTHONOMUS DEFOSSUS. 
Ply; Figs. 6, 11. 
Anthonomus defossus Scudd., Bull. U. 8. Geol. Geogr. Sury. Terr., 11: 86 (1876). 
Body very stout and compact, the elytra considerably broader in the 
middle than elsewhere. It is nearly as large as A. hematopus Boh., with a 
slightly more curved rostrum, which is somewhat longer than the prothorax, 
slightly transverse eyes which are rather large, and with more abundant 
pitting of the prothorax, which is also less obscured by hairs. The head is 
conical, fully half as broad again as long, delicately punctulate, and beneath 
transversely striate, covered very sparsely with very fine, short, almost in- 
visible hairs, directed downward; the antennal scrobes appear to be rather 
shallow. The prothorax is covered with exactly similar hairs, very distant, 
apparently arising only on the sharp ridges between the punctures with 
which the surface is completely studded; these punctures are rather deep, 
rounded, about 0°032"" in diameter, and as closely crowded as possible ; 
the thoracic pleura are similarly pitted, but with a little less frequency, and 
therefore with coarser bounding walls. The elytra are coarsely ridged with 
nine equidistant, stout, rounded costae, 0:1" apart, the fourth from the outer 
border terminating between the conjoined apices of those on either side of it; 
they are rather more prominent and more distant than in A.hematopus; the 
whole surface of the elytra, both costze and furrows, is dull rugulose. The 
legs are similar to those of the living species mentioned, but are somewhat 
shorter. 
mm , 
Length of body, excluding rostrum, 2:2"; rostrum, 0°5"™"; length of 
eye, 0:18"; breadth of same, 0:14"; height at thorax, 0-75™"; at middle of 
abdomen, 1:15™". 
