448 Cocker ell — Eocene Fossils from Green River. 



River weevils. It may or may not be congeneric with Scud 

 der's Syntomostylus rudis, which is known from elytra only, 

 found in Eocene rocks in western Colorado. S. rudis is a 

 smaller species (length of elytra 5 mm ), but in the character of 

 the ridges and punctures, and especially in the acute apex, it 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Syntomostylus fortis. 

 a. snout, b. elytron, c. hind femur 

 and base of tibia, d. thorax. 



Firmianites aterriraus. 



agrees well with S. fortis. (It may be well to note that in 

 Scudder's Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera, p. 50, a wrong 

 reference to the figure of S. rudis is given ; it should be fig. 

 10, not fig. 2.) 



