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Beneath densely, obsoletely punctate, densely clothed with long, 

 recumbent, yellowish-white pubescence, and with numerous long, 

 flying hairs on the sides of abdomen and legs; last abdominal seg- 

 ment strongly acuminate posteriorly, slightly produced behind 

 elytra, ventral surface at apex broadly subtruncate, and the dorsal 

 surface rather deeply angularly emarginate; prosternal process 

 about one-fourth as wide as coxal cavities, and arcuately declivou'=i 

 in front and behind ; mesosternum rather broad and somewhat tri- 

 angular between the coxae, arcuately declivous in front, and angu- 

 larly emarginate posteriorly; femora strongly and abruptly clavate 

 apically. 



Length, 13 mm.; width, 5.5 mm. 



Tyfe locality. — Dominica. 



Type.—Q'At. No. 28403, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique female collected by H. W. Foote, on the 

 Yale Expedition to Dominica during June and July, 1913. 



ENEODES, new genus 



Mandibles large and rather thick at base. Head equal in width 

 to the pronotum at apex, feebly concave between the antennal tuber- 

 cles, the front wider than long, and the cheeks short. Antennae 

 rather slender, slightly longer than the body, and ciliate beneath; 

 first joint short, robust, oblong-oval, without a cicatrix at apex, and 

 subequal in length to the third joint, which is considerably shorter 

 than the fourth, and the following joints gradually diminishing in 

 length. Eyes moderately large, rather coarsely granulated, deepl}^ 

 emarginate, and the lower lobes as wide as long, and rounded. 



Pronotum wider than long, even, regularly convex, with a long 

 tooth on each side at the middle, the tooth bifid and the posterior part 

 long and curved backward. Elytra rather short, elongate, subpar- 

 allel, feebly depressed on disk, and strongly declivous posteriorly, 

 the surface rather even, and each elytron with a tuft of erect black 

 hairs near base, but without a basal crest. Legs rather short ; femora 

 strongly, abruptly enlarged apically ; intermediate tibiae with a dis- 

 tinct groove; tarsi rather short, narrow, and the first joint of the 

 posterior pair shorter than the following two joints united, and the 

 tarsal claws divaricate. Mesosternum narrow between the coxae, 

 and arcuately declivous in front. Prosternal process narrow, arcu- 

 ately declivous in front and behind, and triangularly expanded be- 

 hind the coxae, which are globose. Body and legs clothed with long, 

 flying hairs. 



Genotype. — Erieodes hirsuta, new species. 



This genus is quite different from the other American genera of 

 Acanthocinini, but is closely allied to Contoderus Thomson and E^ies 

 Pascoe, both of which are confined to the Malaysian region. From 



