LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 33, 1897. 

 Sir : I send herewith for your acceptance a descriptive account of the 

 Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera of the Tertiary beds of Florissant, 

 Colorado, together with a catalogue of the non-rhynchophorous fossil 

 Coleoptera of North America, intended as a complementary volume to my 

 Monograph, already published hy the Surve}', on the Tertiar}' Rhynchoph- 

 orous Coleoptera of the United States. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



Samuel H. Scudder. 

 Hon. C. D. Walcott, 



Director TJ. S. Geological Survey. 



