REVISION OF ELEODTINI BLAISDELL. 77 



In the female the second segment is about a third of its length 

 longer than the third and twice the length of the fourth. 



The profemora in the typical form are distinctly tumid and clavate, 

 and in the males of the other forms and all females more or less mod- 

 erately so. The grooves are rather broad and the margins are feebly 

 subcariniform, converging quite close to the base. 



The meso femora are gradually and feebW thickened externally; 

 the metafemora have their superior and inferior borders subparallel. 

 The grooves are dull and feebly subasperate, the margins finely 

 asperulate and more or less evanescent before becoming contiguous. 



The protibife are more or less feebly arcurate and slightly com- 

 pressed. All the tibia^" are usually without tarsal grooves, although 

 an occasional specimen exhibits rudimentary grooves on the protibia? 

 with the articular cavities slightly open, otherwise the cavities are 

 closed. 



The tarsi are moderate both as to length and stoutness. 



The protarsi in the male are just noticeably longer than in the 

 female, and specimens of corresponding size must be selected, as a 

 large female compared with a small male would not show the true 

 ditt'erence. 



The protarsi are about two-fifths (male) or three-scA^enths (female) 

 of their length shorter than a mesotarsus. Joints two, three, and four 

 are subequal, just noticeably smaller in the female, and together about 

 equal to the fifth in length ; the first is about equal to the combined 

 lengths of joints three and four. 



The mesotarsi are about a seventh (male) or an eighth (female) 

 of their length shorter than a metatarsus. Joints one and five are 

 subequal in length, and the combined lengths of two, three, and four 

 just a little longer than either. 



The metatarsi are about three-fourths (male) or a half (female) 

 of their length shorter than a metatibia. Joint two is a little longer 

 than three; the first is as long as the combined length of third and 

 fourth. 



ELEODES OMISSA van PYGM.S:A, new. 



Oblong-ovate to ovate, more or less shining and smooth. 



Head finely punctate, punctures denser on the epistoma, frons 

 feebly convex to fiat. Antennm moderate, outer four joints scarcely 

 dilated, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth subequal in length, 

 ninth and tenth suborbicular and slightly transverse. 



Pronotum. quite quadrate, widest at or just in front of the middle, 

 one-fifth to one-fourth wider than long; due evenly and moderately 

 convex from side to side, finely and sparsely punctate ; apex truncate 

 in circular arc ; sides evenly and not strongly arcuate in anterior two- 

 thirds, thence more or less straight and converging to base, or some- 



