514 SUPPLEMENT. 
short spiny hairs beneath ; anterior femora stout, feebly emarginate on the inner side before the apex 
anterior and intermediate tibie slightly curved in the male, the upper spur of the anterior pair longer and 
stouter than the lower one in the female ; first ventral segment depressed in the middle behind in the 
male. 
Length 12-15, breadth 5-8 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme and Xucumanatlan in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Mochitlan 
in Guerrero (Baron). | 
Twelve examples. Closely allied to E. alutacea, Sol., but differing from all the 
varieties of that species in the sculpture of the elytra and in the opaque upper surface. 
The male is less elongate and has more slender legs than the same sex of £. amaura. 
Apparently confined to Western Mexico. 
15 (a). Eleodes amaura. | 
Eleodes maura, huj. op. p. 81, Tab. IV. figg. 4, 5 (mec Say). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Matamoros Izucar, Zimapan (Hége). | 
The above name is proposed for the species doubtfully referred to E. maura, Say. 
E. elongatula, Sol., quoted as a synonym, may or may not be the species described by 
Eschscholtz under the same name. All these descriptions are too imperfect for identi- 
fication. Mr. H. H. Smith has sent us a female specimen of this species from Orizaba 
with a Gordius emerging from the anus; about three inches of the worm are extruded. 
Elzodes rotundicollis (p. 82). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—San Andres Chalchicomula, Cordova (Hége). 
Apparently common in the State of Vera Cruz. 
Elzodes carbonaria (p. 83). 
To the Mexican locality given, add :—Chihuahua (/. Kerr), Paso del Norte, Santa 
Clara in Chihuahua, Chihuahua city, Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas, Saltillo in Coahuila, 
Monterey in Nuevo Leon, Villa Lerdo in Durango, Lagos, Zacatecas (Hodge). 
Abundant in Northern Mexico. An extremely variable and puzzling species; some 
examples are fusiform, others comparatively short and small; in a few specimens the 
elytral interstices are convex. 
Elzodes sulcatula (p. 83). 
To the locality Mexico, add :—Rio Frio Ixtaccihuatl (£lohr). 
One female example. This species should be placed near EF. sulcata. The anterior 
tarsi are mutilated in the type, and they are incorrectly described as being clothed with 
spiny hairs beneath. 
