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Prosternum is horizontal or feebly arcuate between the coxee, and 

 quite strongly and subtriangularly mucronate behind. The pro- 

 sternum gradually slopes from the anterior margin to a point between 

 the coxae, so that the coxal region appears less suddenly protuberant 

 ventrally than in many other species. 



In a larger series than the one before me there would no doubt be 

 greater variation in this respect. 



The mesosternum is moderately oblique and quite broadly concave. 



The tibial grooves of the femora are nnich less strongly developed 

 in this species than in insularis. In the anterior femora they are the 

 widest and moderately concave, sides converging from the femoral 

 teeth, becoming evanescent before reaching the base; the middle 

 grooves are less strongly defined and narroAver, evanescent before 

 reaching the base; the posterior are the least developed, quite narrow 

 and evanescent near the middle of the femora. The margins of the 

 grooves are obtuse, rising but slightly above the quite flat floors of 

 the same. The anterior n:iargins of the profemoral grooves are cari- 

 nate, becoming dentately laminate at outer flfth, and thence to apex 

 sinuate and more or less obsolete. 



The tibia^ are not noticeably compressed, and not in the least 

 carinate externally; the tarsal grooves are rudimentary and more or 

 less oljsolete. 



The tarsi are about ecjually stout in the sexes. 



Tarsal formula : 



I'ro. Meso. Meta. Metatibse. 



Male. — 3^ 4^ 5 . 7 



Female.— 3* 4i 5 8 



ELEODES GORYI Solier. 



Eleodes goryi Solier. Stndi Entomol., 1S4.S, p. 251, pi. x, figs. 14, 15. — 

 Champion, Biol. Centr.-Amer., IV, Pt. 1, 1885, v. 93. 



Eleodes seriata LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858. p. 185. — Horn, 

 Trans. Aiiier. Phil. Soc. XIV. 1870. p. 319. 



Ovate fusiform, more or less shining to subopaque, strongly con- 

 vex, elytral ]:)unctnres usually Avithin larger dents. 



Head less than twice as wide as long, feebly convex, rather finely 

 and more or less densely punctate. Anteriruv long, reaching beyond 

 the prothoracic base, outer four joints scarcely compressed and feebly 

 dilated, third joint not as long as the next two taken together, fourth 

 decidedly longer than the flfth, the latter to the eighth inclusive sub- 

 equal, eighth (I'iauguhir, uiuth and tentli more or less orbicular, 

 eleveuth oval. 



rvonotnm widest at tlie middle, where it is but slightly wider than 

 the base; dhc moderately and cveidy convex, finely, rather densely 

 and regularly puiictulate: iipcf moderately deeply emarginate, finely 

 or more or less obsoletely beaded, and scarcely ecjual to the length: 



