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plates is a distinct depression forming a submarginal groove. The caudal segment. 
bears a pair of posteriorly directed spines near posterior margin dorsally and a pair of 
median anal lobes ventrally. Head, legs, and antennez free. Antenne passing 
behind first and second pairs of legs and over wing pads. Elytra folded ventrally 
over the posterior legs. 
Eyes conspicuous, Pleural 
margin of abdominal seg- 
ments bearing mammiform 
tubercles. Body without 
hairs or bristles. 
The adult ' (fig. 26).—More 
or less shining, elytra not 
pubescent. Antenne with 
the third joint scarcely as 
long as the next two com- 
bined, fourth joint a little 
longer than the fifth, the 
latter slightly ‘longer than 
the sixth, the latter and the 
seventh equal. 
Pronotum usually widest 
at the middle, frequently 
widest just in front of the 
middle. 
Elytra irregularly and 
quite densely muricately 
punctate, very minutely so 
on the dorsum, coarser on 
the sides and apex; from 
each puncture arisesarather 
short, stiff, curved, incon- 
spicuous and semirecum- 
bent seta. These are not 
evident on the inflexed 
sides. 
Otherwise as in letcheri, 
but a little more robust. 
Measurements.—Males: Length, 14.5-16 mm.; width, 5-6.5 mm. Females: Length, 
15-16 mm.; width, 7.5 mm. . 
Genital characters as in letcheri. 

Fic. 26.—False wireworm, Eleodes letcheri vandykei: Adult, dorsal 
aspect. Much enlarged. (Original.) 
Eleodes pimelioides Mann. 
The egg.—Oval in longitudinal section and circular in cross-section; 1.34 mm. in 
length and 0.85 mm. in diameter; pure glistening white; without sculpturing of any 
kind. ; 
The larva.—Elongate, cylindrical, convex dorsally, flattened ventrally. Yellowish, 
first thoracic and eighth abdominal segments brownish, ventral surface paler, anterior 
and posterior margins of first thoracic and posterior margins and anterior submarginal 
areas of succeeding segments brown, a distinct pale median vitta; head brownish 
posteriorly, edge of the mandibles black, base of the mandibles brownish; claws, 
spines on legs, and caudal segment brown; antenne brownish. Anterior margin of 
first thoracic segment excavated, posterior margins on all segments except caudal 

1 The description of the adult given herewith is taken from ‘‘A Monographic Revision of the Coleop- 
tera, belonging to the Tenebrionide Tribe Eleodiini, inhabiting the United States, Lower California, 
and Adjacent Islands,’’ by Frank E. Blaisdell, Sr. Bul. 63, U.S. Nat. Mus., p. 136, 1909. 

