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WICKHAM: NEW MIOCENE COLEOPTERA FROM FLORISSANT. 491 
CoRPHYRA CALYPSO, sp. Nov. 
Plate 16, fig. 3-4. 
Form moderately robust. Head small, eyes destroyed but the 
orbits indicate that they were of good size. Antenna only slightly 
serrate, slender but not very long, the basal joints in poor condition, 
the intermediate ones about one and one half times as long as wide. 
Prothorax suborbicular, sculpture obliterated. Elytra four times as 
long as the prothorax, sides subparallel, apices bluntly rounded, sculp- 
ture very obscure, apparently a confused close punctuation or rugosity, 
two or three longitudinal lines showing on each which are probably 
due, in part at least, to underlying wing veins. Fore leg, the only one 
showing, rather short and quite stout. Length, as preserved, 8.50 
mm.; to elytral apex, 8.40 mm.; of elytron, 5.70 mm. 
Described from one specimen. 
Type.— No. 2,696 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 8,706 S. H. 
Scudder Coll.). 
The form, size, and, as far as shown, the sculpture, are those of 
Corphyra. The antennae agree very well if we assume that the third 
joint is broken off in the middle and that the break immediately pre- 
ceding the first of these sections represents the place of the second 
joint. The small head makes it unlikely that the insect is a meloide. 
MELOIDAE. 
TETRAONYX MINUSCULA, sp. nov. 
Plate 16, fig. 5. 
Preserved in profile. Form moderately stout. Head large, finely 
punctate and clothed with sparse blackish hairs. Antennae showing 
the distal six joints which increase in length apically and are sub- 
moniliform. Prothorax higher than long, surface shining like that uf 
the head, punctuation fine and sparse, giving rise to long dark hairs of 
greater length than those on the head. Elytron finely, sparsely punc- 
tured and hairy, the hairs shorter than those of the prothorax or less 
well preserved. Legs rather stout and clothed with sparse dark hairs. 
Abdomen and side-pieces of the meso- and metasternum obscurely 
punctate and nearly smooth except that a few hairs may be seen in 
