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ELEODES FUCHSII, new species. 



Ovate, subopaque, prothorax comparatively small. Elytra sub- 

 asperately granulate laterally and on apex. Head about twice as 

 wide as long, more or less feebly convex, impressed laterally and 

 usually along the frontal suture, the latter more or less bisinuate and 

 fine, sides not very prominent, more or less evenly punctate, punc- 

 tures moderately fine and not very densely placed. Antenna' rather 

 long, feebly compressed and slightly widened in the outer four joints, 

 third joint scarcely as long as the next two combined, the fourth to 

 the eighth inclusive subequal in length, the eighth slightly widened, 

 ninth as wide as long and subtriangular, tenth orbicular or trian- 

 gulo-orbicular, eleventh ovate, 



Pronotum scarcely to moderately transverse, a fourth to a half 

 wider than long, widest at about the middle; disc moderately and 

 evenly convex, rather densely and somewhat finely punctate, becoming 

 more or less granulate along the sides; apex slightly and evenly 

 emarginate or truncate in circular arc, obsoletely margined; sides 

 rather strongly arcuate, less so behind the middle, where they appear 

 somewhat oblique to the rather strong constriction at basal seventh, 

 which may not be very suddenly or at other times rather gradually 

 formed, thence to the angles more or less straight and parallel; mar- 

 ginal bead rather fine and somewhat obsolete at basal constriction; 

 base slightly rounded, finely to obsoletely margined, very slightly 

 wider than the apex and about equal to the length ; apical angles dis- 

 tinct and subacute, or slightly obtuse ; basal angles subrectangular or 

 obtuse and not in the least rounded. 



Propleura' smooth and subopaque, sparsely muricato-granulate and 

 more or less rugulose on the acetabular convexities. 



Elytra oval, about a third longer than wide, widest at the middle; 

 l)ase equal to or distinctly wider than the contiguous prothoracic base; 

 humeri evenly or obtusely rounded; sides broadly and moderately 

 arcuate, moderately attenuate at apex, the latter not broadly rounded ; 

 disc moderately convex, not depressed, quite evenly and not very 

 broadly rounded laterally, arcuately declivous posteriorly; svrface 

 with the punctures rather coarse, densely and irregularly placed, at 

 times vaguely seriate when viewed longitudinally, punctures simple 

 on each side of the suture, asperately granulate laterally and on the 

 apex, minutely setigerous. 



Epipletira^ moderate in width, gradually narrowing from base to 

 apex, superior margin straight or very feebly sinuate beneath the 



