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Female. — Rather robust, antenna^ reaching to the base of prothorax. 

 Abdomen strongly convex. Anterior femora mutic; first joint of the 

 anterior tarsi with groove entire, without the tuft of apical spinules, 

 marginal spinules rather stout. 



Measurements. — Male: Length, 18 mm.; width, 5.8 nnu. Female: 

 Length, li mm.; width, C.5 mm. 



Genital characters as in extricata^ except that the genital segment 

 of the female is subquadrate. 



Habitat. — Arizona (Fort LIuachuca). 



Number of specimens studied, G. 



Sexitypes: Male in H. C. Fall's collection; fenuile in that of my 

 own. 



Type-loeality. — Fort Huachuca, Arizona. 



Diagnostic characters. — Form of a typical extricafa^ with the elytra 

 more or less sulcate ; otherwise as for that species. 



ELEODES GRANULATA LeConte. 



Eleodcs ffranulatd LeConte, Reports of Explor. aud Surveys . . . 47tti 

 and 40tli Parallel, XII, Appendix, No. 1, 1S57, p. 50, female. — Horn, 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, ISTO. p. oOl). 



Elcodes ohttisa I.eConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., ISGl, p. ;>52, male. 



Eleodcs mpcra LeConte, Smithson. Miseell. Coll., No. 167, 186,5, p. 115. 



(?) EJcodc!< suJjaspcra Soliek, Studi Entomol., II, 1S4S, p. 246. 



Elongate ovate, more or less opaque, elytra tuberculate. 



Head scarcely twice as wide as long, feebly convex and more or 

 less flattened, broadly and very feebly impressed laterally, rather 

 coarsely, irregular, and quite densely punctate. Antenna' rather long, 

 outer three joints very feebly compressed and scarcely dilated, third 

 joint as long as the next two taken together, the fourth slightly longer 

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

 shorter, sometimes triangular, ninth and tenth slightly transversely 

 oval ; eleventh ovate. 



Pronotum subquadrate, widest at about the middle, one-fourth to 

 one-third wider than long; disc moderately and evenly convex, fre- 

 quently quite arcuately declivous laterally, rather coarsely and 

 densel}' punctate, punctures very much crowded along the sides, with 

 impunctate areas and denser spots centrally; apex truncate to feebly 

 emarginate and more or less obsoletely margined ; sides more or less 

 evenly and moderately arcuate anteriorly, rather straight and con- 

 verging posteriorly, or obsoletely sinuate before the basal angles, 

 finely beaded ; hase subtruncate, finely margined, equal to or slightly 

 longer than the length, two-ninths to one-fourth wider than the apex: 

 apical angles obtuse, distinct, not prominent -iior rounded; basal 

 angles obtuse, at times slightly rounded. 



Proplenrce quite densely sculptured, punctato-rugulose. 



