REVISION or ELEODIINT BLAISDELL. 503 



Male charaeters. — Narrower, finer punctiiation, greater length of 

 elytral cauda when present. Abdomen more or less moderatelj'' 

 convex, first abdominal suture more or less impressed with base of 

 second segment and apical moiety of the first, giving the abdomen 

 the appearance of being oblique and the sterna somewhat promi- 

 nent; first suture with a fossa at middle, densely clothed with golden 

 pubescence on the segmental margins; sometimes a ti-uncated tubercle 

 on the intercoxal process of the first abdominal segment. 



Female eliaracters. — Broader form, somewhat coarser ])unctuation. 

 Abdomen rather strongly convex. 



Genital eliai-aefers. — The characters observed in the specimens at 

 hand are as follows: 



M((le. — Edeagophore, length 5.5 mm.; edeagus l.T) nnn. Very 

 elongate, somewhat flattened, strongly arched, somewhat oblong- 

 ovate and well chitinized. 



Ba.sale, elongate oblong, about four times as long as wnde, mod- 

 erately convex from side to side, divided hy a median membranous 

 groove which extends from V)ase to apex, apically continuous with 

 the groove of the apicale. 



Apieale elongately triangular, at least twice as long as wide, some- 

 what depressed, disc feebly convex, narrowly and more strongly so 

 laterally, a long median groove extending from l)ase to apex; l^ase 

 quite broadly and strongly lobed at middle three-fifths, laterally 

 l)roadly and feebly sinuate; sides slightly and evenly arcuate, regu- 

 larly converging to the subacute apex, the latter rendered minutely 

 emarginate by the median groove. 



Stemite transversely suboblong, lobes strongly connate and con- 

 tinuously chitinized, transversely prominent at middle, the surface 

 sloping apically and basally; apical moiety broadly concave; basal 

 half less broadly concave at about middle third, laterally the surface 

 is convex and gradually diminishes toward the lateral angles of the 

 apex; apical margin broadly and evenly emarginate; external 

 borders moderately arcuate; apical angles somewhat prominent and 

 rather narrowly rounded. 



Apical moiety densely pubescent, hairs of moderate length and 

 rather coarse, basal portion glabrous. 



Clara' absolutely not evident as distinct structures. They are 

 present but connate forming a dorsal pallium for the edeagus. The 

 margins of the pallium gradually attain the midline ventrad to the 

 base of the edeagus, ])ecoming contiguous but not connate; beyond 

 the middle of the edeagus the pallium is entirely dorsal, with sides 

 distinctly chitinous and semimembranous at middle. The apex of 

 the pallium i)rojects just a little beyond the eapnt edeagi. Ake 

 strongly inflex and somewhat obsolete. 



