32 TERTIARY COLEOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Length of body, 7 imn.; of antennfe, 2.75 mm.; breadth of elytra, 

 3.1 mm. 



Florissant, Colorado; one spechnen, Nos. (S728 and 9177. 



In memory of the late Leo Lesquereux, who first illustrated the 

 Florissant flora. 



CYMINDIS Latreille. 



Two species of this genus occur in the Pleistocene of the New World — 

 in Canada and Massachusetts — while in Europe two other species occur in 

 the older Tertiaries of amber and of Oeningen. At the present time the 

 genus is tolerably rich in species and is found mostly in north temperate 

 regions, and North America has its fair share. 



Cymindis aurora. 



Cymindis aurora Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, V, 243 (1876); Scudd., Tert. Ins. 

 N. A., 518, pi. 1, % 6 (1890). 



Bone caves of Pennsylvania. 



Cymindis extorpescens sp. nov. 



PI. Ill, fig. 4. 



This species is described by me in a chapter on the Pleistocene beetles 

 of Fort River, forming part of Monograph XXIX of the United States 

 Geological Survey, by Prof B. K. Emerson. 



Hadley, Massachusetts. 



BRACHYNUS Weber. 



A cosmopolitan genus, pretty rich in species, of which about twenty- 

 five occur in America. Three fossil species are now known, one from 

 Oeningen, the others from Colorado. 



Brachynus newberryi sp. nov. 



PI. Ill, fig. 10; PI. IV, fig. 8. 



This species comes in the vicinity of B. alter nans Dej., but is somewhat 

 smaller, with shorter legs. Excepting in one specimen, which shows the 

 middle and hind legs in addition, only elytra are preserved. The legs are 

 slender, the tibiae rather sparsely haired and armed at tip with rather short 



