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ELEODES FUSIFORMIS LeConte. 



Eleodcs fusiform is LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi la.. 1S58. p. 184. — 

 Horn, Trans. Amer. Pliil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 318. 



Fusiform, bocl}^ narrowing quite evenly both waj^s, smooth and 

 more or less shining. 



Head more or less feebly convex, smooth, usually without impres- 

 sions, frontal suture distinct, finely and not densely punctate, punc- 

 tures very sparse over the vertex. Ante?ina' rather long, slightly 

 compressed and incrassate in outer four joints, third joint not quite 

 as long as the next two taken together, fourth to the eighth inclusive 

 subequal, eighth feebly triangular, ninth and tenth very feebly trans- 

 versely orbicular, eleventh short ovate. 



Pr'onotiim trapezoidal widest at the base wdiere it is about one- 

 half wider than the apex; disc more or less moderately convex from 

 side to side, laterally slightly arcuately declivous, very finely, sparsely 

 and indistinctly punctulate; opex moderately and evenly emarginate 

 and more or less obsoletely margined; sides converging anteriorly, 

 not strongly but evenly arcuate, finely margined; base quite broadly 

 rounded, and more or less distinctly margined; apical angles quite 

 prominent anteriorly and subacute, sometimes feebly rounded; basal 

 angles obtuse and more or less rounded. 



Propleura quite smooth, obsoletely punctate, and more or less 

 rugulose. 



Elytra ovate to oval, Avidest at or a little in advance of the middle ; 

 hase broadly emarginate with the hiuneral angles clasping the basal 

 angles of the prothorax, slightly wider than the contiguous base of 

 the same; hnraeri more or less acute and anteriorly prominent; sides 

 evenly arcuate, apex not produced but rather narrowly rounded: disc 

 more or less feebly convex on the dorsum, rather narrowly rounded at 

 the sides but not suddenly inflexed, arcuately declivous posteriorly; 

 inflexed sides quite plane and oblique; surface subseriately punctate, 

 the series quite closely placed and at times quite distinct, intervals 

 with a single series of more distantly spaced, at times irregularly ar- 

 ranged punctures, the serial punctures usually slightly larger than 

 the interstitial. Often they are subequal and more or less confused, 

 and always more or less so laterally and on ai)ex. 



E pi'plen7'<(' on the same plane as the inflexed sides of the elytral 

 disc, moderately wide and gradually nan-owing from base to apex; 

 surface smooth, finely and sparsely punctate. 



Sterna somewhat glabrous, more or less obsoleteh^ punctate and 

 rugulose. 



Paraplevrd' quite coarsely and more or less obsoletely punctate. 



Abdomen glabrous and shining, finely and sparsely punctate with 

 the intercoxal j)ro(;ess more coarsely sculptured. 



