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The meso- and metafemora are each subequal in width, the former 

 is scarcely compressed, the latter distinctW so. The tibial grooves 

 have their margins feebly subcariniform and gradually converging 

 to become contiguous and evanescent at basal thirds. 



The protibia^ are feebly compressed; all the tibia? are without tarsal 

 grooves, and muricately sculptured. 



The tarsi are moderate in length and comparatively slender. The 

 protarsi are about a fourth of their length shorter than a mesotarsus; 

 first four joints subequal in width; the second, third, and fourth are 

 about as long as wide, the fourth slightly smaller than the third ; the 

 fifth is about as long as the preceding three taken together; the first 

 is longer than wide, and rapidly narrowing to the base. 



The mesotarsi are about a fifth of their length shorter than a 

 metatarsus. First four joints are subequal in width, gradually and 

 slightly diminishing in length from the second to the fourth. Joints 

 one and five are each separately subequal to the combined lengths of 

 the second and third. 



The metatarsi are about two-fifths of their length shorter than their 

 metatibia^. The fourth joint is about equal to the combined lengths 

 of the second and third; the first is a little longer than the same, and 

 the second is just a little longer than the third. 



The comparative tarsal measurements were made on the female. 



ELEODES CARBONARIA (Say). 



Blaps carhniHinn Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 1S23, p. 260. 

 Eleodes carbonaria IjF.Conte, Complete Writings of Thomas Say, II, 18.59, 



p. 125; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, p. 181.— Horn. Trans. Amer. 



Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 308.— Champion, Biol. Centr.-Amer., IV, 



Pt. 1, 1884, p. 308.— Casey, Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci.. \', Nov.. 1890, p. 395. 

 Eleodes soror LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 185. 

 Eleodes immunis I.ieConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 186. — 



Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIA^ 1870, p. 308. 



Oblong-ovate, moderately elongate, smooth, more or less shining, 

 estriate, elytral punctures arranged in series. 



Head twice as wide as long, more or less convex, rather densely and 

 irregularly punctate, punctures denser anteriorly, sparser about 

 vertex, surface more or less imj)ressed along the frontal suture and 

 laterally. A7itenn(B moderately long, reaching to or very slightly 

 beyond the base of the prothorax, subequal in the sexes, outer four 

 joints feebly compressed, just perceptibly dilated, third joint about 

 equal to the next two taken together, fourth just noticeably longer 

 than the fifth, the latter, sixth and seventh subequal. eighth triangular 

 and as wide as long; ninth and tenth more or less feebly transversely 

 oval; eleventh ovate. 



Pi'onotum subquadrate, widest at or a little in advance of the 

 middle, and about one-fifth to one-third wider than long ; disc evenly 



