WICKHAM: NEW MIOCENE COLEOPTERA FROM FLORISSANT. 465 
is evidence of a longitudinal medial callosity or raised line, stronger 
near the base. Elytra rather short, moderately tapering, apex 
truncate with a strong, sharp, external spine and a short sutural 
denticle. Surface rather finely punctate and granulate, this sculpture 
showing best in a light colored transverse band of irregular shape which 
extends across in the neighborhood of the basal third, this band having 
arcuate fore and hind margins which converge so as to make it nar- 
rower at the suture. In this light area are seen moderately long 
scattered black hairs. Abdomen, as preserved, long enough to extend 
beyond the elytral tips but perhaps unnaturally distended. Legs 
wanting, excepting one belonging to the posterior pair which is of 
only moderate length, the femur not strongly clavate, tarsal joints 
not expanded, the first scarcely equal to the next two. Length, from 
apex of mandibles to that of abdomen, 19 mm.; of elytron, excluding 
spine, 9.60 mm.; of seven proximal joints of antenna 8.40 mm. 
Width of elytron at middle of band, 3 mm. 
Described from a single specimen with counterpart. 
| Pype.— No. 2,585, 2,586 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 11,795 
and 12,419 S. H. Scudder Coll.). 
In this specimen, the elytra and hind wings are both spread but the 
secondaries are not clear enough to make a description feasible. The 
drawing does not show the latter. The generic reference is to be 
understood as applying broadly but the insect shows so many features 
that are common in the Clytini as to make the assignment plausible 
at any rate. ‘These characters are the large rounded prothorax, the 
shape of the head and mandibles, the rather short, spinose antennae, 
the short elytra, armed at apex and with transverse maculation, and 
the long abdomen. On the whole, I am inclined to place it near 
Cyllene rather than with any of the other genera that I know, though 
the hind tarsi are more like those of Clytus (for example the recent 
C. lanifer), but have chosen the term Clytus as being, in its broad 
sense, more inclusive. The anterior coxae are well separated and the 
prosternum is fairly broad. 
GAUROTES STRIATOPUNCTATUS, Sp. nov. 
| : Plate 9, fig. 3. 
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Form rather robust. Head small, eyes not prominent. Antennae 
iwell over half the length of the entire body, not specially modified in 
jany way, the joints beyond the second subequal as far as can be seen. 
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