REVISION OF ELEODIINT — BLAISDELL, 395 



Leg8 moderate in stoutness and length. Femora rather densely 

 punctate, each puncture with a very small appressed seta, the anterior 

 mutic and more or less sinuate in apical fifth; tibisc quite strongly 

 muricate; anterior tibial spurs about equal and acute; anterior tarsi 

 quite similar in the sexes, the first joint slightly thickened at tip be- 

 neath, groove entire, the marginal and apico-marginal spinules rather 

 prominent. 



Male. — Somewhat narrow. Elytra with the sides not strongly 

 arcuate, at times subparallel at the middle, and more or less arcuately 

 and somewhat gradvuilly obliquely declivous posteriorly; apex more 

 or less obliquely narrowed. Abdomen slightly flattened at middle of 

 first two segments, otherwise moderately convex. 



Female. — Somewhat robust, elytra more or less broadened, sides 

 evenly arcuate, apex somewhat arcuately narrowed; disc arcuately 

 and almost vertically declivous posteriorly, abdomen strongly convex. 



Measureme^its. — Malen: Length, 20-25 mm.; width. .5.r)-(;.2 mm. 

 Females: Length, 20-22.5 mm.; width, 8-8.5 mm. 



Genital characte7'S, male. — Edeagophore somewhat oblong-fusiform. 



Basale oblong, sides more or less arcuate, scarcely arched and (piite 

 evenly convex, with a linear median groove in apical half. 



Ap'uale (Plate 1, fig. 3) triangular, surface more or less convex, 

 generally depressed and more or less broadly membrano-chitinous at 

 middle; sides feebly arcuate and more or less feebly sinuate near 

 apex, the latter rather narrowly rounded and not recurved ; base more 

 or less acutely lobed at middle and sinuate laterally. 



Sterrdte transverse and semicircular in outline. Each lobe triangu- 

 lar, with the external border quite evenly arcuate to the apex, the 

 latter narrowly rounded; internal border slightly sinuous; surface 

 feebly convex, rather densely punctate in apical half, sette moderately 

 long and dense, most so at apex; membrane not setose across the 

 bottom of the sinus, the latter more or less triangular. 



Female. — Genital segment triangular to oblong-triangular in out- 

 line, feebly setose, apex chitinous. 



Valrula (Plate 1, fig. 1). — Dorsal plate oblong, sides slightly con- 

 verging apically, glabrous; surface more or less concave, feebly, 

 sparsely, and irregularly punctate, punctures with fine reclinate seta^, 

 sides not reflexed; margins subparallel, the external nearly straight, 

 or occasionally feebly arcuate to sinuous, and the internal more or 

 less feebly sinuous or straight ; apical margin more or less obliquely 

 truncate, occasionally not well defined from the apical membrane 

 internally; angle rounded but evident, occasionally with tw^o or three 

 setse. Apex well developed and moderately produced, flattened, more 

 or less convex above, broadly and evenly rounded at tij), chitinous, 

 with oi- without a few rather short setae; apical valvular membrane 

 quite largely exposed within on apex and opposite the apical fourth 



