REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 371 



denser sculpturing. The prothorax, while it retains the same form 

 observed in iKirmcollis^ is more broadly rounded and more briefl}^ 

 sinuate at the base, the marginal line nearly attains the angle. Con- 

 strieta^ which occurs in the same region, is much more strongly and 

 coarseh^ sculptured, the prothorax is strongly constricted at base. 



The wider pronotum, smaller and less robust form, distinguishes 

 hoppingii from consohrina. 



The i^ubescent tufts on the protarsi are smaller than in any other 

 species of Blapylis known to me. The antenna? are also shorter than 

 in any other closely related species. 



The female before me was compared with types in Cambridge by 

 Professor Fall, and found to be quite different from anything there. 



I have named it in honor of my friend, Ralph Hopping, in recogni- 

 tion of many favors. 



General ohservatiotis. — The mentum is moderate and parabolic in 

 outline, slightly triangular in the males; surface finely and not dis- 

 tinctly punctate, broadly and feebly foveate laterally. 



The prosternum is not strongly protuberant ventrally with the 

 coxa^, arcuately rounded antero-posteriorly between the same,* and 

 not in the least mucronate. 



The mesosternum is arcuately declivous and feebly concave. 



The metasternum laterally between the coxte is as long as the 

 width of a mesotibia just before the apex. 



The abdominal process is subquadrate (male) or slighth^ trans- 

 verse (female), and about a fourth of its width broader than the 

 metasternal salient ; it is also equal to the length of the post-coxal 

 l^art of the same abdominal segment; it is also equal to the length 

 of the second segment, the latter being twice as long as the fourth; 

 the third is one-half longer than the fourth. It is quite unusual for 

 these relative proportions of parts to correspond in the tAvo sexes. 



The tarsi are slender and of moderate length. 



Tarsal formula : 



Pro. Meso. Meta. Metatibia. 



Male.— 1- 1 2^ 2 ^ ^_ 



Female.— 1^ 2 2i 3^ 



ELEODES CLAVICORNIS Eschscholtz. 



Eleodes clavicorni.s Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, III, 1833, p. 11. — Manner- 

 HEiM. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, XVI, 1843, p. 269. — LeConte, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 182.— Horn, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 

 1870, p. 315. 



Elcofle.i iinprcssicnUis Boheman, Freg. Eugen. Resa. Ins., 1858, p. 90. 



Oblong-ovate, about twice as long as wide, small, pronotal disc 

 not noticeably transverse and with moderately long erect seta^ along 



