WICKHAM: NEW MIOCENE COLEOPTERA FROM FLORISSANT. 493 
species of the genus, reaching but little beyond the prothoracic base. 
Prothorax rounded, base a little narrower than the apex. Elytra elon- 
gate, finely scabrous with a faint costulate effect. The entire upper 
surface of the body is sprinkled with fairly long blackish hairs, most 
likely the remains of a closer covering. Legs poorly preserved, rather 
slender, hairy. Length, as preserved, 10.40 mm.; to elytral apices, 
8.85 mm.; of elytron, 6.30 mm. 
Described from one specimen. 
Type.— No. 2,702 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 10,420 8. H. 
Scudder Coll.). No. 2,703, 2,704 M. C. Z. (No. 6,608, 10,917 S. H. 
Scudder Coll.), represent the same species. 
I think there is but little doubt of this being a meloid, and it seems 
placed better in Cantharis than elsewhere. The short antennae and 
eostulate elytra are seen in C. sphaericollis, common today in the 
vicinity of Florissant, but the fossil has a somewhat differently shaped 
head and prothorax, finer sculpture, and apparently coarser vestiture. 
OTIORHY NCHIDAE. 
CYPHUS FLORISSANTENSIS, sp. nov. 
Plate 16, fig. 8. 
any kind but merging gradually into the head, marked by a fine median 
line which extends back to a point about even with the hind margin 
of the small round eyes. Antennae long, the scape slender, passing 
the middle of the eye, funicular joints much longer than wide, club 
oval, poimted. Prothorax broader than the head, base and apex about 
equal, sides regularly but not strongly arcuate, surface finely granulose. 
_ Elytra broken at apices but evidently narrowed behind the middle, 
each with about eight series of small, sharp, rounded punctures, ar- 
ranged in regular striae, those in each row separated ordinarily by a 
| little less than their own diameters. Interspaces broad, flat and nearly 
Length of fragment, 9 
smooth. Legs poorly preserved but stout. 
_mm.; in life about 9.75 mm. 
~ Described from one specimen. 
| Lype—No. 2,705 M. C. Z. Florissant, Col. (No. 8,029 S. H. 
Scudder Coll.). 
| Resembles Cyphus in the form of the body but differs from recent 
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| * Form moderately stout. Beak short without basal constriction of 
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