1892.] 
381 
[Scudder. 
Cypliini by Naupactus and Strophosomus, a couple of species ; 
and the Phyllobiini by Phyllobius and Polydrosus, in amber. 
We find therefore only eleven genera and seventeen species in 
Europe against twenty-three genera and forty-seven species in 
America. The importance of the Otiorhynchidae in the Ameri- 
can Tertiaries and particularly in the Gosiute fauna is therefore 
apparent. 
The following table gives in detail the peculiarities of this 
distribution, by which it appears that the relative development of 
the different tribes in the recent American fauna is in this in- 
stance more nearly approached by the American than by the 
European Tertiary fauna. 
Tribal Distribution of Recent and Fossil Otiorhynchidae. 
Tribes. 
Recent N. America. 
Henshaw’s Catal. 
Tertiary 
North American. 
Tertiary 
European. 
Number 
of 
Species 
Per- 
centage 
Number 
of 
Species 
Per- 
centage 
Number 
of 
Species 
Per- 
centage 
Brachyderini 
13 
11.3 
6 
12.8 
5 
29.4 
Ophryastini 
40 
34.8 
13 
27.7 
0 
0.0 
Otiorhynchini 
27 
23.5 
9 
19.1 
6 
35.3 
Dirotognathini 
Tanymecini 
Cypliini 
1 
0.9 
0 
0.0 
0 
0.0 
7 
6.1 
1 
2.1 
1 
5.9 
13 
11.3 
3 
6.4 
2 
11.8 
Evotini 
3 
2.6 
5 
10.6 
0 
0.0 
Phyllobiini 
5 
4.3 
6 
12.8 
2 
11.8 
Promecopini 
6 
5.2 
4 
8.5 
0 
0.0 
Pristorhynchini 
0 
0.0 
0 
0.0 
1 
5.9 
Totals 
115 
100.0 
47 
100.0 
17 
100.1 
One hundred species, or slightly more than one half of the Ter- 
tiary Rhynchophora of North America, belong to the Curculioni- 
dae, but this preponderance is a little less than in the recent Ameri- 
can fauna where the family holds a still more important place and 
is the more conspicuous from the fact that its numbers are more 
than four times greater than those of any other family, while in 
the Tertiary deposits of the West the Otiorhynchidae have nearly 
half as many species as the Curculionidae. In general, therela- 
