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al)()ut twice as long as the fourth; the third is about one-half longer 

 than the fourth. 



The tarsi are usually moderate in length and stoutness. 



Tarsal formula : 



Pro. Meso. Meta. Metatibia. 



Male.— 2 2* 3 4i 



Female.— 1* 2i 3 4^ 



ELEODES CORDATA van ROTUNDIPENNIS LeConte. 



Pronotal sides evenly and broadly rounded (as in ixD-vlcoIJh)^ 

 basal constriction short and the angles rectangular. 



Otherwise as in cordata. 



LeConte was very much in doubt as to the propriety of separating 

 this form even as a race. The constancy of form in the prothorax, 

 which, taken in conjunction with the coarse elytral sculpturing, make 

 it appear at first sight as a northern modification of scabrosa; this 

 is not so; the propleura? are Avithout distinct setae, and besides 

 the 2^1'onotal punctuation is quite ditferent, being as in cordata; 

 this is in fact the only superficial character which separates and pre- 

 vents it from being naturally associated with the paroicollis section. 

 I consider it a good race, and the series before me shows conclusively 

 that it varies more toward typical cordata than inmcUoides. 



Hahitat. — Oregon (Koebele) ; British Columbia (Victoria and 

 North Bend, Hubbard and Schwarz) ; Washington (H. K. Morrison, 

 Easton and Olympia). 



Number of specimens studied, 11. 



Type in the LeConte collection. 



Type-locality. — " Oregon." 



I have taken this variety at Oregon City, near Portland, Oregon. 



Stricta LeConte, according to the author, has the "thorax less sud- 

 denly but ver}'^ much constricted at base, fully one-half wider than 

 long; elytra more coarsely and less densely punctured,"' and is to be 

 taken as a synonym of the present race. 



ELEODES PIMELIOIDES Mannerheim. 



Eleodes pUnclloUJcH Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, XVI, 1843, p. 



274; Maj;. Zool.. XIII, 1843, no. 12!), Hg. — LeConte, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 18.58, p. 182.— PIorn, Trans. Anier. Phil. Soc, XIV, 



1870, p. 318. 

 Blendes viator LeConte, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1858, p. 188. 

 Eleodes .siihligata LeConte, Reports of Explor. and Surveys, 47tLi Parallel, 



XII, Appendix no. 1, 18.57, p. 50. 

 var. brimnipes Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., X, Nov., 1890, p. 402. 



Moderately robust, ovate, feebly shining to opaque, about twice as 

 long as wide; prothorax more or less strongly constricted at base, 

 densely rugoso-punctate ; elytra sculptured Avith small tubercles, 

 which may be rounded or reclinate and more or less piliferous. 



