REVISION OP ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. l2l 



ELEODES EXTRICATA Say. 



Blaps extricata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 1823, p. 261. 

 Elcodes extricata LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 181. — Horn, 



Traus. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 309.— Casey, Contr. to the 



Descr. and System. Col. of N. Amer., Pt. 1, 1884, p. 48. 

 Eleodcs vognata Haldeman, Stansbury's Explor. and Survey, Great Salt 



Lake, Utah, Appendix C, p. 370. — Casey, Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., V, 



Nov., 1890, p. 395. 



Fusiform-ovate to ovate, about twice as long as wide, smooth, shin- 

 ing to subopaque. Anterior femora armed in the male; the first 

 joint of the anterior tarsi is clothed on the slightly thickened tip 

 beneath, with a small subacute tuft of yellowish pubescence (fresh 

 examples). 



Head twice as wide as long, moderately convex, more or less im- 

 pressed laterally and feebly so along the frontal suture, the latter 

 usually more or less vaguely indicated; finely and not very densely 

 punctate, punctures denser on the sides and epistoma. Antenna', 

 (|uite long, outer four joints very feebly compressed and very slightly 

 dilated, third joint subequal to the next tAvo taken together, fourth 

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

 subtriangular, eighth triangular, ninth and tenth suborbicular, elev- 

 enth ovate. 



Pronotiim subquadrate, widest at or slightly in front of the mid- 

 dle, about a fourth wider than long; disc more or less moderately 

 convex, rather strongly declivous at the apical angles, finely, evenly, 

 and not densely punctulate, not denser nor granulate at the sides; 

 ape.v broadly but not strongly emarginate in circular arc, or sub- 

 truncate, about equal to the length and more or less obsoletely mar- 

 gined ; sides evenly and not strongly arcuate, narrowing rather more 

 strongly anteriorly than posteriorly, finely beaded ; hase feebly 

 arcuate, one-fifth to one-fourth wider than the apex and very finely 

 margined; apical angles somewhat subacute, with the appearance of 

 being slightly prominent anteriorly or subrectangular and not 

 rounded ; basal angles obtuse, slightly or not rounded. 



Propleurce moderately convex, finely and sparsely or obsoletely 

 punctulate, quite strongly rugulose. 



Elytra oval, widest at the middle, a little more than twice as long 

 as wide ; hase feebly emarginate, adapted to the prothoracic base, which 

 it scarcely exceeds in width; humeri acute and slightly prominent 

 anteriorly, usually more or less adapted to the basal angles of the 

 prothorax; sides evenly arcuate, apex rather narrowly rounded and 

 not produced ; disc moderately convex on the dorsum, strongly and 

 more or less broadly rounded laterally, arcuately declivous pos- 

 teriorly; more or less coarsely and rather densely punctate, with a 



