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tuft of golden pubescence at tip beneath ; the second joint has 

 a narrow transverse tuft. The basal joint of the mesotarsi 

 bears a very small tuft which does not wholly interrupt the 

 plantar groove. 



The female referred to under bnmnipcs in my monograph 

 of the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.), and which was 

 collected at Verdi, Nevada, belongs here. It was doubtfully 

 referred to brunnipes and did not not agree with my speci- 

 men of that species which was collected at Buena Vista, Colo- 

 rado. 



Eleodes nunenmacheri n. sp. 



Robust, subovate, densely sculptured and dull black. Elytra tuber- 

 culate throughout, body setigerous throughout. 



Head rather small, less than one-half the width of the prothorax, 

 very densely punctate, punctures rather small, subperforate, and more 

 or less coalescent: intervals very narrow or more or less obsolete; 

 feebly and broadly impressed along the line of the frontal suture. An- 

 tennae a little longer than the head and pronotum, moderate in stout- 

 ness, outer four joints moderately compressed, very feebly incrassate ; 

 third joint as long as the fourth and fifth taken together, fourth to the 

 seventh inclusive subequal in length and obconic, eighth triangular, 

 ninth and tenth about as long as wide, eleventh obovate. 



Pronotum wider than long, widest just in front of the middle; 

 sides broadly and evenly arcuate anteriorly, oblique and converging 

 posteriorly, and just noticeably arcuate to straight not reentrant, 

 constricted in basal twelfth, sides of the constriction straight and 

 parallel, sinuate only at the junction of the obliquely directed sides 

 and the constriction, arcuately subangulate at middle ; disk evenly and 

 moderately convex, densely punctate, punctures moderate, subperforate, 

 more or less coalescent and minutely setigerous, intervals very narrow 

 to subobsolete, with scattered small smooth areas as if a puncture was 

 now and then obsolete; apex very feebly sinuate and not beaded; 

 base subequal to the apex, transverse and not beaded ; apical angles 

 obtusely and narrowly rounded ; basal angles rectangular and not prom- 

 inent. 



Proplcura opaque, densely and finely punctate, punctures minutely 

 setigerous ; surface rugulose at the acetabula. 



Elytra slightly longer than wide, quadrato-ovate. widest in middle 

 third ; base truncate, slightly wider than the contiguous prothoracic 

 base ; humeri subangulate and not prominent ; disk moderately con 

 vex on the dorsum, broadly and arcuately rounded laterally, arcuately 

 and abruptly declivous posteriorly; surface strongly tuberculate 



