REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 



Table of Distribution. 



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ELEODES GRACILIS LeConte. 



Eleodes gracilis LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1858, p. 184. — Horn, 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 312.— Champion, Biol. Centr. 

 Amer., IV, Pt. 1, 1884, p. 79. 



Elongate oval, siibfiisiform, black, sometimes slightly piceoiis, 

 smooth, shining and moderately convex, never caudate. 



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

 impressed laterally, sometimes along the frontal suture and less often 

 transversely so before the vertex ; surface finely, irregularly, and not 

 densely punctate, xintennw rather long, reaching a little beyond the 

 prothoracic base, slightly incrassate and feebly compressed in outer 

 four joints, third joint subequal to the next two combined, fourth 

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

 triangular, ninth and tenth transversely oval, eleventh ovate. 



Pronotum widest at or slightly in front of the middle, about one- 

 fifth wider than long and more or less subquadrate ; (Use more or less 

 moderately convex, finely and more or less sparsely punctulate, 

 scarcely granulate along the sides; ayex subtruncate or feebly emar- 

 ginate, very finely and more or less obsoletely margined: sides very 

 moderately and evenly arcuate in anterior two-thirds, rather more 

 feebly arcuate, straight or subsinuate and converging in basal third, 



