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The protarsi in the male stouter than in the female. 

 Tarsal formula : 



Pro. Meso. Meta. Metatibia?. 



Male.— 3 4 4i U^ 



Female.— 3 4 4§ 6 J 



ELEODES STRIOLATA LeConte. 



Eleodes siriohtta LeContk, Proc. Aoad. Nat. Sei. Pliila., 1858, p. 185. — 

 Horn, Trans. Anier. Phil. Soc, XIV. INTO, p. 310. 



Fusiform to ovate, smooth and more or less shining, briefly cau- 

 date ; elytra with approximate rows of fine punctures. 



Head feebly convex, smooth, finely, not densely and quite indis- 

 tinctly iDunctate, impressions very slight and vague; frontal suture 

 evident. Antennn' rather long, reaching slightlj^ beyond the pro- 

 thoracic base, slender, scarcely compressed and feebly incrassate in 

 outer four joints, third joint scarcely as long as the next two taken 

 together, fourth very slightly longier than the fifth, the latter to the 

 eighth, inclusive, subequal, eighth obconical, ninth and tenth orbicu- 

 lar, eleventh ovate. 



Pronotum subquadrate, widest at about the middle, very slightly 

 narrowing at the base, and a little more strongly so anteriorly to 

 apex, about one-third wider than long; disc evenly and moderately 

 convex from side to side, finely and obsoletely punctulate ; a-pex 

 evenly and rather broadly emarginate, finely and more or less obso- 

 letely margined ; sides evenly arcuate from base to apex, finely 

 beaded; hane broadly rounded and very finely margined, one-half 

 wider than the apex and about one-third wider than long; apical 

 angles subacute and slightly prominent anteriorly; basal angles 

 obtuse and more or less rounded. 



Propleurm obsoletely punctate, smooth and more or less feebly 

 rugulose. 



Elytra oval, Avidest at the middle, at times slightly more than twice 

 as long as wide; hase feebly emarginate and slightly wider than the 

 contiguous protlioracic base: Jmmeral angles slightly acute, not pro- 

 longed nor clasping the protlioracic base: sides evenly arcuate, apex 

 slightly i)roduced ; dine feebly to moderately convex on the dorsum, 

 laterally rather narrowly rounded, arcuately declivous behind, in- 

 flexed sides more or less plane and extending slightly farther than 

 usual upon the sides of the abdomen: punctate, punctures fine and 

 arranged in ai)proximate series, which are scarcely ever impressed; 

 the punctures of each scries are se]:)ai-ated by a space that is about 

 equal to their diameters; each interval has a single series of more 

 distantly s|)aced and vei'v minute punctules which become more or 

 less irregular at times; on the inflexed sides the serial {junctures be- 

 come coarse and more or less impressed. The apex is slightly pro- 



