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and not described in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. He advises 

 that it be placed near gracilis. I have been unable to recognize it in 

 the large amount of material which has passed through my hands. 



ELEODES SUBPINGUIS, new species. 



Elongate oval to ovate, rather robust, subopaque to feebly shining, 

 somewhat ventricose and not muricately punctured; elytra striato- 

 punctate, intervals feebly convex, more strongly so on apex. 



Head less than twice as wide as long, feebly convex, broadly 

 impressed laterally and along the frontal suture, sometimes trans- 

 versely so before the vertex, somewhat sj^iarsely and irregularly 

 punctate at middle and rather densely so laterally, punctures 

 moderate. Antenna} long, distinctly reaching beyond the prothoracic 

 base in both sexes, slightly compressed and incrassate in outer four 

 joints, third joint about equal in length to the next two combined, 

 fourth just slightly longer than the fifth, the latter with sixth and 

 seventh subequal, eighth triangular and about as long as wide, ninth 

 and tenth slightly transversely oval, eleventh trapezoidal. 



Pronotum noticeably transverse, less than one-half wider than long, 

 widest at the middle; disc very moderately convex, somewhat im- 

 pressed laterally, very finely and sparsely punctulate; O'pex sub- 

 truncate, scarcely emarginate, very distinctly and rather coarsely 

 margined laterally, less strongly so at middle; sides evenly and 

 moderately arcuate to basal fourth, thence feebly sinuate to base, 

 margin distinct, moderate and slightly refiexed; hase distinctly but 

 not strongly arcuate, one-third wider than the apex, and coarsely 

 margined; apical angles simply acute or minutely dentiform and not 

 everted ; basal angles obtuse, distinct, not rounded nor prominent. 



Proplewrce opaque, impunctate, and more or less obsoletely rugulose. 



Elytra oval, about twice as long as wide and somewhat ventricose, 

 widest at the middle; hase very feebly emarginate, scarcely wider 

 than the contiguous prothoracic base; huTYheri obtuse, not prominent 

 nor rounded ; sides evenly arcuate from base to apex, somewhat 

 gradually converging posteriorly, apex obtusely rounded ; disc moder- 

 ately and quite evenly convex on the dorsum, more strongly and 

 broadly so laterally, arcuately declivous posteriorly; svrface striato- 

 punctate, some of the stria? aj^parently duplicated, punctures quite 

 coarse, usually separated by less than their own diameters and some- 

 what impressed on the dorsum and more strongly so laterally; 

 stria^ near the suture not duplicated, intervals more or less feebl}'^ 

 convex, quite strongly so on the apical declivity, widest near the 

 suture and narrower laterally, with a single series of minute and not 

 very distantly spaced punctures. 



