REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 199 



floors are glabrous and impunctate; margins scarcely acute, the an- 

 terior more or less dentately laminate at about junction of the- fourth 

 and outer fifth; tibial grooves of the mesofemora are usually short, 

 margins evanescent, and the inferior surface rounded to base and 

 sculptured as usual; the grooves on the metafemora are similarly 

 developed. 



The protibia3 are more or less carinate externally, straight or mod- 

 erately arcuate, and more or less moderately compressed; the tarsal 

 grooves are not usually well developed, roughly sculptured, and open 

 into the articular cavities. 



The mesotibia3 are flattened externally and the tarsal grooves are 

 usually well developed and variable in length, with floors glabrous 

 and sides well defined by muricate edges ; they open into the articular 

 cavities. 



The metatibse are flattened and more or less broadly marked by a 

 shallow groove externally; the floors of the grooves are muricately 

 sculptured and the articular cavities are open. 



The tarsi are stout. 



The protarsi are about one-half of their length shorter than a 

 mesotarsus. Joints two, three, and four are subequal, short, and 

 wider than long; the first is slightly longer and quite abruptly nar- 

 row^ed at base; the fifth is scarcely longer than the three preceding 

 ones combined. 



The mesotarsi are one-sixth of their length shorter than a meta- 

 tarsus. The first and fifth joints are about equal in length; the 

 second, third, and fourth are subequal and a little longer than wide, 

 and together distinctly longer than the fifth. 



The metatarsi are a little more than one-half of their length 

 shorter than their metatibia. The first and fourth joints are sub- 

 equal in length ; the second and third are subequal and distinctly 

 longer than wide, and together about equal to the fourth. 



ELEODES SUTURALIS Say. 



Blaps sniuraUs Say, .Jonni. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., Ill, 1823, p. 257; Amer. 



Entomology, I, 1824, p. 30, pi. xvi, fig. 2. — LeConte, Complete Writings 



of Thomas Say, I, 1859, p. 30. 

 Eleodes suturalis LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Thila., 1858, p. 181. — 



Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIY, 1870, p. 306. 

 Var. tcxana LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 182; in 



Thomson's Arcana Natnrse, III, 1860, p. 124, pi. xii, fig. 5, female. — 



Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 300; Trans. Amer. Ent. 



Soc, V, 1874, p. 34. 



Oblong, more or less strongly elongate, dorsum flattened and 

 slightly concave, black, frequently with a broad reddish band along 

 the elytral suture, epipleura? often tinged with the same color. 



