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ELEODES SUBNITENS LeConte. 



Eleodcs suhitens LeConte, Ana. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N. Y., V 1851, p. 

 134,— Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 319. 



Fusiform to elongate ovate, noticeably narrowed anteriorly, surface 

 subopaque, finely punctate and smooth. 



Head evenly convex, impressions scarcely evident, frontal suture 

 distinct ; surface finely and evenly punctate, punctures quite indis- 

 tinct over the vertex. Antennw long, rather robust, outer four 

 joints slightly compressed and feebly widened; third joint equal to 

 the next two taken together; fourth just noticeably longer than the 

 fifth, the latter to the eighth inclusive subequal in length ; ninth and 

 tenth feebly and transversely suborbicular; eleventh short oval. 



Pronotum quadrate, widest at the base and slightly narrowing from 

 base to apex, rarely widest at the middle and narrowing slightly to 

 base as well ; disc evenly convex from side to side, very finely and sub- 

 obsoletely punctulate : apeoc feebh' and broadly emarginate, obsoletely 

 margined and equal to the length; sides feebly and quite evenly arcu- 

 ate from apex to base, very finely beaded; base broadly and feebly 

 arcuate or subtruncate, about one-fourth longer than the length, one- 

 sixth to one-fourth wider than the apex; apical angles subacute and 

 anteriorly prominent ; basal angles obtuse and not rounded. 



Proj)leur(i' smooth, obsoletely punctulate and rugulose. 



Elytra oval, widest at or just behind the middle, and moderately 

 attenuate in apical fourth ; base feebly and broadly emarginate or 

 subtruncate, slightly wider than the contiguous prothoracic base; 

 humeri obtuse or feebly subacute, scarcely or very feebly prominent 

 anteriorly; sides evenly arcuate, apex subacute or narrowly rounded; 

 disc moderately convex or slightly depressed on the dorsum, laterally 

 regularly rounded, arcuately declivous posteriorly; punctate, punc- 

 tures fine and closely placed in rather distant unimpressed series, 

 intervals more or less irregularly and very finely punctulate: sculp- 

 turing more or less indistinct, not denser nor coarser laterally and 

 on apex. 



Epipleurce slightly widened at base, thence gradually narrowed to 

 apex, not wide, the superior margin broadly sinuate basally and curv- 

 ing upward to the humeral angle; surface smooth and obsoletely 

 punctulate. 



Sterna smooth and more or less obsoletely sculptured. 



Parapleura' smooth and more or less distinctly or obsoletely 

 punctate. 



Abdomen smooth, finely punctulate, and more or less indistinctly 

 rugulose; fifth segment finely 'Setose about the margin. 



Legs rather long and moderately slender. Anterior femora dentate 

 or sinuate: the anterior spurs of the anterior tibiae similar in the. 

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