REVISION OF ELEODIINT BLAISDELL, 221 



The following species described by Colonel Casey evidently belongs 

 here : 



Forma composita Casey. — ^Moderately robust, convex, intense black 

 throughout, the pronotum dull and strongly alutaceous; elytra shin- 

 ing, very feebly alutaceous, glabrous. 



Head denseh', finely, rather sparsely punctate and dull ; antennse 

 rather long and stout, fully as long as the head and thorax, third 

 joint between three and four times as long as wide, outer joints 

 slightly broader, the ninth and tenth somewhat transversely oval. 



Pronotum about as long as wide; disc evenly convex, very minutely, 

 sparsely punctate; ajycx broadly, very feebly emarginate; sides paral- 

 lel, broadly arcuate or subangulate just before the middle, very feebly 

 sinuate just behind the apical angles, feebly convergent and nearly 

 straight to the base ; hasc arcuate and equal to the apex in width : 

 apical angles right, slightly blunt, not prominent; basal angles 

 broadly obtuse. 



Elytra about two and two-thirds times as long as the prothorax, 

 and, in the middle, one-half wider than the latter, about twice as long 

 as wide; humeri not at all exposed; sides broadly arcuate, apex 

 acutely angulate; disc strongly declivous behind, deeply sulcate, the 

 ridges strongly convex and shining, each with a single rather uneven 

 series of small, moderately distant punctures, the intervals as wide as 

 the ridges, deep, opaque, each with a single series of rather small, 

 close-set, asperate punctures. 



Legs slender, the femora shining, rather finely but strongly punc- 

 tate, the anterior alone with a strong acute tooth near the apex; 

 tibia? strongly rugose except toward base, the spurs of the anterior 

 small, acute, and nearl}^ equal. Prosternum with the apex slightly 

 reflexed, acute and tuberculiform. 



The above is Casey's original description. 



Measurements of the type. — Male: Length, 16 mm.; wadth, 0.6 mm. 



Unknown to me. 



Type: a unique in Colonel Casey's collection. 



Type-locality. — Texas. 



Forma typica. — Habitat. — Missouri (Say). Colorado (August, 

 C. V. Iviley; Denver, April and June, Coll. H. Soltau ; May, Colls. 

 Dyar and Caudell ; Colorado Springs, June, elevation 6,000-7,000 

 feet, H. F. Wickham. In his List of the Coleoptera of Colorado, Pro- 

 fessor Wickham gives the following localities, the forms are not differ- 

 entiated : La Junta, West Las Animas, Canyon City, San Luis Valley, 

 Fort Garland, Trinidad, Holly, Fort Collins). Kansas (collections 

 of Chas. Fuchs, C. V. Riley, F. H. Snow, and F. E. Blaisdell). New 

 Mexico (Las Vegas, August, Colls. Barber and Schwarz ; Albuquerque, 

 Coll. E. C. Van Dyke). Texas (Mobeetee, October, Coll. H. S. Bar- 



