142 BULLETIN 63, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The edges of the tibial grooves of the femora are usually not at all 

 carinate, and not well defined, the marginal line is more or less 

 scabrous; the floors of the grooves are slightly glabrous to punctate, 

 shining or opaque. 



F'irst joint of the metatarsi equal in length to the next two talvcn 

 together. 



ELEODES PILOSA Horn. 

 l'jlr()(l(s pilosa Horn. Traus. Anier. I'liil. Soc, XIV, ISTO. p. .''>14. 



Elongate ovate, black, more or less opaque to feebly shining, 

 strongly punctate and si)arsely clothed with brownish Or black, erect, 

 rather coarse and slightly stifl', conspicuous hairs. 



Head scarcely convex, feebly impressed laterally, rather coarsely 

 and densely punctate, sparsely clothed with rather short and more or 

 less erect hairs. AntcniK^ moderate, first eight joints moderately 

 pubescent, outer four joints feebly compressed and scarcely dilated, 

 third joint ecpial in length to the next two combined, joints four to 

 eight inclusive subequal, eighth feebly triangular, ninth and tenth 

 suborbieular, eleventh subacutely ovate. 



Proitotum Avidest at or just in front of the middle, one-sixth to 

 one-half wider than long; disc moderated and evenly convex, 

 very coarsely and denselv punctate, the punctures irregularly con- 

 fluent, the interstices narrow and convex, more or less bright and 

 shining, surface clothed with quite long erect hairs: apex truncate or 

 feebly enuirginate and obsoletely margined; sidei< not strongly. l)ut 

 evenly arcuate in apical two-thirds, thence somewhat straight aiul 

 feebly converging to the base, or very moderately and evenly arcuate 

 fi'om apex to base, margin hardly evident to distinct or obsolete; 

 base truncate and finely margined, about equal to the length and a 

 little Avider than the apex; apical angles obtuse, not rounded nor 

 ])i'()minent : basal angles obtuse, sometimes feebly rectangular and not 

 prominent. 



Proplevrw opa(pie, evenly graiuilo-uniricate, with short semi-erect 

 seta?. 



lih/fra oval and about tAvice as long as wide; hase truncate and 

 about as wide as the contiguous prothoracic base; humeri indistinct 

 and rounded; siden evenly arcuate, apex very slightly proniinenl 

 jwsteriorly and rounded ; disr more or less cA'euly convex from side 

 to side, rather suddenly and more or less arcuately declivous pos- 

 teriorly; surface densely and irregularly, finely and muricately punc- 

 tured on the dorsum, becoming confusedly muricato-tuberculate on 

 the sides and apex; sometimes the surface is faintly substriate, at 

 other times the punctures on the dorsum are arranged in rather dis- 

 tant series, closely placed and unimpressed, with an interstitial series 



