72 BULLETIN 63, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The protarsi are about a fourth (mah^) or two-thirds (female) of 

 their length shorter than a mesotarsus. 



The niesotarsi are about a ninth — less in the female — of their 

 length shorter than a metatarsus. 



The metatarsi are about a seventh (male) to two-fifths (female) 

 of their own length shorter than their respective metatibia. 



The relative proportions of the joints of each tarsus are practically 

 the same as in ohsoleta. 



ELEODES OMISSA LeConte. 



Eleodes omissa LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 186. — Horn, 



Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 308. 

 Eleodes intemipta Blaisdell, Ent. News, III, Dec. 1!)02, p. 241. 



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



Head twice as wide as long, more or less convex, feebly impressed 

 laterally, frontal suture fine and usually evident, rather finely and 

 not densely punctate, punctures sparser on vertex. Antenna' 

 moderate, outer four joints very feebly compressed, scarcely dilated, 

 third joint equal in length to the next two taken together, fourth 

 slightly longer than the fifth, the latter, sixth, and seventh subequal, 

 eighth just the least shorter, subtriangular, and longer than wide, 

 ninth and tenth somewhat circular in outline, eleventh ovate. 



Pronotum subquadrate, widest at or in front of the middle as 

 viewed vertically from above, one-fourth to one-third wider than 

 long; disc evenly ajid moderatel}' convex, more or less arcuately 

 declivous at the sides, fineh^ sparsely, and more or less irregularly 

 punctulate. punctures just a little coarser and denser laterally; apex 

 feebly emarginate or subtruncate in circular arc, finely or obsoletely 

 beaded ; sides evenly and moderately arcuate in the anterior two- 

 thirds, thence to the base more or less straight and converging 

 (viewed vertically from above), or evenly and rather broadly arcuate, 

 converging and more or less feebly sinuate (viewed obliquely from 

 the side), finely beaded; hase slightly rounded to subtruncate. finely 

 margined, one-ninth to a fourth wider than the apex ; apical angles 

 subacute to obtuse, rarely f(>ebly prominent anteriorly; basal angles 

 obtuse, frequently apparently rounded when viewed vertically from 

 above. 



Propleitra' finely and very sparsely piuictate, more or less rugulose, 

 rarely rugose. 



Elytra oval, widest at the middle, less than twice as long as wide; 

 hose feebly emarginate to truncate, usually scarcely wider than the 

 contiguous prothoracic base; hameri obtuse and not prominent; sides 

 evenly arcuate, apex obtusely rounded; disc moderately convex on 

 the dorsum, rather strongly and evenly rounded laterally, arcuately 

 declivous posteriorly, punctate, punctures frequently of the same 



