middle of the beak, basal joints slender, club not compact, the two joints 

 ■which show not broad. Prothorax verv little arched along the back, surface 

 shining with a few shallow punctures of small size which become more 

 pronounced and rugose along each side near the middle of the hind margin. 

 Elrtra two and two-thirds times the prothoracic length, shining like the 

 prothorax but not quite so strongly, showing only a few shallow punctures, 

 clothed with rather short not very close fine hairs, no evidence of striae. 

 Under side of body hardly visibly punctured even under high power. Legs 

 long, distinctly hairy. Length, exclusive of rostrum, -i.OO mm. ; of elytron, 

 2. So mm.; of rostrum, 2.00 mm. 

 Described from one specimen. 



Not much like any of the other Florissant Rhynchitids which 

 approach it in size. Auletes wymani has strongly striate elytra, 

 A. liorissantfiisis is larger and differently sculptured. The spe- 

 cies of Docirhynchus are dilferently proportioned. As matters 

 stand, the only reasonable course seems to lie in describing this 

 species as distinct and assigning it to a genus where, at any rate, 

 it will not look much out of place. 



EHYXCHITES LAMIXAEUM sp. nov. 

 (Plate II, fig. 7). 



Form fairly elongate. Head long, tapering, shining, hardly perceptibly 

 punctured, corrugate on the cheek behind the eye. Beak, measured from 

 the eye, as long as the head and prothorax together and considerably more 

 than half as long as the elytra, not tapering except at base, very slightly 

 arcuate, apparently punctured. Eye small, circular. Antennae not dis- 

 played. Prothorax with moderately arched dorsum, surface shining, weakly 

 and distantly punctured, the punctures rather fine. Elytra not strongly 

 arched dorsally, with poorly marked striae of punctures. Underside vaguely 

 roughened as if by large shallow punctures. Legs poorly shown, rather 

 long. Length, excluding rostrum but measured from its basal constriction, 

 3,60 mm.; of beak, measured from front of eye, L50 mm. 



Described from two specimens- one in lateral view the other exhibiting 

 the dorsum. 



The characters seem to be those of Rhynchites and this beetle 

 is certainly different from any Florissant species placed in the 

 Rhynchitidae by Scudder or myself. It is a good deal like the 

 figure and description of Apion s}nif}iii from Florissant, but that 

 insect is larger, with a relatively shorter beak. I am inclined to 

 think that Apioii sniifliii and A. (xanimaJr are both Rhynchitids 

 and that Toxorhynchus minusculus, the type of Scudder 's genus, 

 is an Apion. 



