EEVISION OF ELEODIINT BLAISDELL. 285 



The metatarsi are not quite equal to half of the length of a meta- 

 tibia. Joints two and three are subeqiial, together shorter than the 

 fourth and longer than the first. 



ELEODES ESCHSCHOLTZII Solier. 



Elcoilcs cschschoU;:ii Soijf.k, Stucli Entoinol., 11, 1848, p. 254. — Champion, 

 Biol. Centi-.-Amer., IV, Pt. 1, 1884, p. 77, pi. in, fig. 24, male. 



Var. liicw LeConte, Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., 167, Pt. 1, 1866, p. 114.— 

 Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 312. 



Elongate, fusiform oval, smooth and more or less shining, strongly 

 and more or less caudate. 



He(t(l about twice as wide as long, more or less convex, feebly im- 

 pressed within the sides of the frons, rather finely, more or less irregu- 

 larly, and not very densely i^unctate. AntciuKv long and moder- 

 ately slender, outer four joints feebly compressed, gradually and fee- 

 bly dilated, tliird joint scarcely as long as the next two combined, 

 fourth to the seventh inclusive subequal, eighth subtriangular, ninth 

 and tenth more or less orbicular to feebly oval, eleventh ovate and 

 obliquely truncate at tip. 



Pronotwm quadrate, Avidest at the middle, an eighth to a fourth 

 wider than long; disc moderately and evenly^convex, declivous at the 

 apical angles, finely to obsoletely, evenly and rather sparsely punctu- 

 late ; apex truncate to more or less evenly emarginate, finely margined, 

 obsoletely so at the middle; sides evenly and feebly to moderately 

 arcuate, finely margined; hase feebly arcuate and finely beaded, and 

 about a fourth Avider than the apex; apical angles subrectangular to 

 obtuse and not rounded, or acute and more or less advanced; basal 

 angles obtuse and not rounded. 



Propleura' obsoletely punctulate and more or less rugulose. 



Elytra oval, Avidest at the middle ; hase truncate to feebly emargin- 

 ate, A' ery slightly Avider than the contiguous prothoracic base ; humeri 

 obtuse, not rounded nor prominent ; sides cA^enly arcuate, apex more 

 or less produced ; disc CA^enly and strongly conA^ex from side to side, 

 obliquely to arcuately and more or less gradually declivous posteri- 

 orl}'; surface striato-punctate, punctures moderate in size, closely 

 and regularly placed, in moderately distant and more or less im- 

 pressed series, the intervals Avith a series of irregularly and more or 

 less distantly spaced, very fine punctures; punctures not becoming 

 confused at the sides or apex, the intervals scarcely convex, but 

 becoming slightly so on the apex, Avhere the suture is more or less 

 impressed. 



Ejnplevra' rather narroAv and gradually narroAving from base to 

 apex, where they extend narrowly along the sides of the inferior sur- 



