REVISION OF ELEODIINT BLAISDELL. 479 



verifying the results of my previous search and consider it a new and 

 very remarkable addition to our fauna. 

 Type of the genus. — Eleodimorpha hole cm. 



ELEODIMORPHA BOLCAN, new species. 



Feebly ovate, somewhat robust ; a little more than twice as long- as 

 wide : black, somewhat opaque ; feebly setigerous beneath ; dorsally 

 the very minute seta^ scarcely project out of the punctures. 



Head somcAvhat wide, almost plane, punctate, punctures coarse, 

 confluent on the epistomaand laterally, irregular and sparse centrally, 

 scattered on the vertex; sides of the frons scarcely prominent and 

 feebly impressed within ; frontal suture slightly evident laterally. 



Antennm moderate in length and stoutness, outer three joints feebly 

 compressed and slighth^ dilated, third joint not five times as long as 

 the second, scarcely as long as the fourth and fifth taken together; 

 joints 4 to 8 rather short, somewhat obconical, the fourth just the 

 least longer than the fifth, the latter, sixth, seventh, and eighth sub- 

 equal; ninth and tenth slightly transverse and oval; eleventh short, 

 ovate. 



Pronotmn widest just in advance of the middle, transverse, about 

 one-half wider than long; disc evenly and moderately convex, rather 

 coarsely punctate, punctures simple, irregular, and sparse centrally, 

 becoming denser and submuricate laterally; aj)ex broadly and deeply 

 emarginate, bottom of the emargination rather straight at middle 

 three-fifths, about equal to the length, marginal bead not very coarse ; 

 sides evenly and broadly arcuate, moderately sinuate in basal fifth, 

 very briefly and feebly so just behind the apical angles, marginal bead 

 fine ; hase truncate, rather coarsely beaded, and about one-fifth wider 

 than the apex ; apical angles anteriorly prominent and subacute ; 

 basal angles rectangular. 



Propleunc sparsely and submuricately punctate, and more or less 

 rugulose, moderately convex, not in the least concave beneath the pro- 

 notal margins, except at the apical angles. 



Elytra oblong oval, widest at the middle, a little more than one-half 

 longer than wide; hase truncate, scarcely to a little wider than the 

 contiguous prothoracic base; humeri not in the least prominent, 

 obtuse, angle almost distinct; sides evenly, moderately, and broadly 

 arcuate ; apex obtuse ; disc evenly convex from side to side, less 

 strongly so toward the base, more strongly so toward apex, where it is 

 arcuately declivous, not inflexed laterally; surface evenly and not 

 very densely nniricately punctate, punctures evenly arranged in evi- 

 dent series, each puncture distinctly defined from the others; the strial 

 are smaller and less muricate, the interstitial are larger and more 

 evident as small shining muricate tubercles, both series less strongly 



