REVISION OF ELEODIINI BLAISDELL. 317 



The mesosterniim is subvertical in its anterior two-thirds and more 

 or less arcuate ; surface smooth, broadly and more 6r less concave. 



The abdominal process is quadrate (male) or slightly transverse 

 (female) and about a fourth of its width wider than the metasternal 

 salient. 



The post-coxal part of the first segment is longer than the process 

 and equal in length to the third (male) or a little longer in the 

 female; second segment is about twice as long as the fourth. 



The metasternum laterally between the coxae is as long as the width 

 of a metafemur at base. 



The profemora are moderately clav^ite; the tibial grooves are rather 

 wide externally, gradually and quite evenly narrowing in basal two- 

 thirds; floors quite concave externally, margins distinct, irregularly 

 and unevenly, minutely subcrenulate, becoming contiguous at base; 

 both margins are more or less obsolete opposite the tibial constriction. 



The mesofemora are scarcely subclavate, although feebly and evenly 

 tumid; grooves rather narrow, with margins as on the profemora, 

 but less strongly marked and less sinuate at apex. 



Metafemora very feebly increasing in Avidth from base to apex; 

 grooves less developed than on the mesofemora, margins obsolete at 

 middle and continued to base as lines of asperities. 



The tibia:' may be niore or less feebly arcuate, most noticeably so in 

 the protibia^, the latter more or less carinate externally in basal half 

 or two-thirds ; tarsal grooves not present and the articular cavities are 

 closed. 



The tarsi are apparently slightly elongate and moderate in stout- 

 ness. 



The protarsi in the male are just noticeably stouter and slightly 

 longer than in the female. They are about a third (male) or a fourth 

 (female) of their lengih shorter than a mesotarsus. 



The mesotarsi are about an eighth (male) or a seventh (female) of 

 their length shorter than a metatarsus, the latter about a half of its 

 own length shorter than its metatibia. 



ELEODES SNOWII, new species. 



Oblong-ovate, more or less shining, about twice as long as wide; 

 sides of the pronotum evenly rounded from apex to base ; elytra more 

 or less muricately granulate and not distinctly flattened on the 

 dorsum. 



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

 feebly impressed laterally, frontal suture more or less evident, rather 

 finely and irregularly punctate, slightly denser and coarser laterally 

 and on the epistoma, sparser on the vertex. Antennm moderate, very 

 feebly compressed and not noticeably incrassate, third joint about 



