REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 329 



Genital characters as in tenehrosa. 



Habitat. — Nevada (Carson City, July, Wickliam ; Verdi, April, 

 Blaisdell) ; California (U. S. National Museum collection — no exact 

 locality given). 



Diagnostic characters. — Nana is more coarsely sculptured; the tu- 

 bercles of the elytra are denser, confluent, and submuricate, but most 

 of them still remain bright and shining. The humeri are more often 

 subangulate. This form inhabits the same region as the typical race. 



ELEODES INCULTA LeConte. 



Eleodes hiculta LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., ISOl, p. 352, male. — 

 Horn, Trans. Anier. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 315. 



Robust, oblong ovate, about twice as long as wide, black, often 

 somewhat i^iceous, feebly shining to somewhat dull; elytra irregu- 

 larly and subasperately muricately punctate. 



Head about twice as wide as long, feebly convex, more or less 

 broadly impressed laterally and along the frontal suture, the latter 

 more or less evident ; irregularly and not very finely punctate, rather 

 densely so laterally and on the epistoma. Antennoi moderately 

 long, somewhat slender, outer four joints feebly compressed and 

 feebly incrassate, third joint scarcely as long as the next two taken 

 together, fourth just the least longer or subequal to the fifth, the 

 latter, sixth, and seventh subequal, eighth just a little shorter and 

 more or less subtriangular, ninth and tenth suborbicular in outline 

 or very feebly transverse, eleventh short-ovate. 



PronotiiTn more or less transversely quadrate, a third to a half 

 wider than long, widest at the middle; disc moderately and very 

 evenly convex, distinctly, irregularly, and not coarsely punctate, 

 punctures separated by an interval equal to or twice their own diame- 

 ters, narrowly subgranulate laterally; apex broadly, evenly, but not 

 strongly emarginate, finely and somewhat obsoletely margined; sides 

 evenly, broadly, and not strongly arcuate, very feebly subsinuate 

 before the basal angles, and less so behind the apical angles, marginal 

 bead fine and entire; hase very feebly and broadly rounded, sub- 

 truncate, rather coarsely margined, one-sixth to one-third wider than 

 the apex, equal to or a little greater than the length ; apical angles 

 subacute, slightly prominent anteriorly, and with a slight tendency 

 to eversion; basal angles obtuse and not in the least rounded, just in 

 the least prominent. 



Propleuroi smooth and shining, sparsely and distinctly submuri- 

 cately punctate and rugulose. 



Elytra oval, less than a third longer than wide, widest at the mid- 

 dle; hase subtruncate. Humeri more or less broadly rounded, epi- 

 pleural margin not visible from above; sides evenly arcuate, apex 



