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slightly wider than long and together quite e(}ual to the fifth; the 

 first joint is short, about a half longer than the second. 



A mesotarsus is about a tenth of its length shorter than a meta- 

 tarsus. Joints 2-4 subequal in length and scarcely longer than wide, 

 together apparently just a little longer than the fifth; first joint 

 almost as long as the second and third taken together. 



The metatarsi are half as long as their respective tibia\ Joints 

 2 and 3 are about subequal in length and distinctly longer than 

 wide, together about equal in length to the fourth or first. 



ELEODES INNOCENS LeConte. 



Elcodrs iiiiiix-ciis I.eContk, Smithsou. Mist-ell. Coll., Xo. 107, ISW, p. 11-1. — 

 Horn, Trans. Aiuer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, p. 312. 



Elongate, suboblong to ovate, subopaque to feebly shining, moder- 

 ately convex. Elytra striato-punctate. 



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

 feebly impressed laterally and along the frontal suture, finely, rather 

 densely and more or less irregularly punctate, antenna' stout, reaching 

 to the prothoracic base, outer four joints scarcely or very feebly com- 

 pressed and not noticeably dilated ; third joint shorter than the next 

 two taken together; fourth to the seventh, inclusive, subequal and 

 subcylindrical; eighth just noticeably shorter; ninth and tenth sub- 

 orbicular; eleventh oval. 



Pronotiim quadrate, widest at or a little in advance of the middle, 

 very little wider than long; disc very moderately and quite evenly 

 convex, at times noticeably declivous at the apical angles, very finely 

 to obsoletely punctulate; apex truncate to feebly emarginate later- 

 ally within the angles, obsoletely margined; sides more or less feebly 

 and evenly arcuate from base to apex, often rather straight behind 

 the middle, very finely margined ; base truncate to feebly arcuate 

 and finely margined, little wider than the apex and about equal to 

 the length ; apical angles obtuse, scarcely rounded and more or less 

 prominent, not dentiform; basal angles obtuse, not rounded nor 

 prominent. 



Propleurce ob.soletely punctulate and more or less rugulose, feebly 

 convex and y^ry feebly defined from the pronotal disc by the fine 

 marginal bead. 



Elytra oval, smooth, about twice as long as wide, widest at or a 

 little behind the middle; hase feebly emarginate or truncate, fre- 

 quently slightly wider than the contiguous prothoracic base; humeri 

 obtuse, not rounded ; sides evenly arcuate, apex not produced and 

 rather narrowly rounded ; disc slightly flattened on the dorsum and 

 quite strongly convex laterally, arcuately, and vertically declivous 

 posteriorly; surface striato-punctate, the strial series moderate in 



