EEVISIOlSr OF ELEODIINI- — BLAISDELL. 347 



The tarsi are moderate in length and not very short; there is evi- 

 dent variation in the individuals of the series before me. 

 Tarsal formula : 



Pro. Meso. Meta. Metatibia. 



Male.— 2i 3^ 3 ^ 6^ 



Female.— 2 2j 3i 5i - 



ELEODES NEOTOM^, new species. 



Ovate, moderately robust, shinino\ and smooth, stroui^ly convex; 

 Elytra scarcely asperately muricately punctate. 



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

 laterally and along" the frontal suture, the latter usually evident as a 

 glabrous line, quite evenly and not very densely punctate, punctures 

 moderate, sides scarcely at all prominent. AnteiUKv moderate in 

 length, rather stout, scarcely compressed or widened in outer four 

 joints, third hardly as long as the next two taken together, fourth 

 to the eighth, inclusive, subequal and rather short, the eighth just 

 the least subtriangular, ninth and tenth scarcely transversely oval, 

 eleventh short-ovate. 



Pr^/v/'>?'?^w -transversely oval, about a third wider than long, widest 

 at the luiddle; disc evenly and strongly convex, irregularly and 

 somewhat densely punctate, punctures dense and granulate laterally 

 along the margins; apex not strongly eniarginate and nu)re or less 

 obsoletely margined ; kUIcs evenly and moderately strongly arcuate, 

 constricted at basal tenth, thence parallel or feebly oblique to the 

 basal angles, margin fine and entire; hase slightly rounded and rather 

 finely margined, slightly wnder than the apex and about e({ual to the 

 length; apical angles subacute, not rounded and rather prominent 

 anteriorly; basal angles more or less rectangular, sometimes feebly 

 prominent. 



Propleurcv sparsely muricato-granulate and more or less rugulose 

 on the acetabular convexities. 



Elytra rather broadly oval, scarcely a third longer than wide, 

 widest at the middle; hase not at all wider than the contiguous 

 prothoracic base; ]trimerlYO\\m\e(\ and quite continuously so with the 

 strongly arcuate sides, apex not narrowdy rounded nor produced ; 

 disc rather strongly and evenly convex on the dorsum, eveidy and 

 somewhat broadly, more strongly, rounded laterally, arcuately de- 

 clivous posteriorly; surface densely, coarsely and not deeply, cA^enly 

 and diffusely submuricately punctate on the dorsum, slightly denser 

 and muricato-granulate laterally and on apex. 



Epipleinyp somewhat wide, griidually narrowing from base to 

 apex, superior margin very broadly and feebly sinuate beneath the 

 humeri, not visible from above; surface opaque, sparsely and obso- 

 letely subnmricately punctate at btise, becoming more strongly muri- 

 cate apically. 



