222 NEW SPECIES MELYRIDAE, CHRYSOMELIDAE AND TENEBRIONIDAE 



Moesta bears the same relation to sanmartinensis that var. minor does 

 to laticollis Lee. There is a slight indication of an obtuse salient at apical 

 fourth of the mesofemora. The present race is based on analogy that has 

 been observed in series of many species. Moesta differs so radically in 

 sculpturing from the type species that it can not be considered as hetero- 

 typical and therefore a form. 



Eleodes mutilata, new species. Form elongate ovate to fusiform 

 ovate, convex. Color black, surface smooth, femora edentate; legs 

 slender and moderate in length. 



Head moderately small, rather short, front moderately convex, 

 epistomal suture fine and more or less impressed; surface smooth, very 

 finely and sparsely punctate. Antennae long and slender, reaching about 

 two joints beyond the pronotal base ; joints four to eight inclusive elongate 

 and subequal, ninth and tenth triangulo-oval, eleventh obovate, pointed at 

 apex and about as long as wide, last three joints scarcely wider to 

 slightly so. 



Pronotum quadrate, a little wider than long; apex broadly and not 

 strongly emarginate between the anteriorly prominent angles, the latter 

 subacute and rather broadly subdentiform ; base broadly and feebly 

 arcuate, apex and base obsoletely beaded ; sides broadly and not strongly 

 arcuate, very slightly sinuate behind and before the apical and basal 

 angles, the latter subobtuse and not at all prominent, marginal bead very 

 fine, almost subobsolete ; disk rather strongly, evenly convex and impunc- 

 tate, or with fine, sparse and subobsolete punctures. 



Propleura sparsely and obsoletely punctate and rugose. 



Elytra oval to subfusiform-oval, rather strongly convex, sometimes 

 slightly flattened on the dorsum ; sides evenly arcuate, slightly more 

 oblique in apical third, apex obtusely rounded ; disk smooth, obsoletely 

 sculptured, punctures small and subequal in size throughout and arranged 

 in closely placed series ; base feebly and broadly emarginate, subequal to 

 the pronotal base ; humeri minutely dentiform. 



Parapleura rather distinctly and densely punctate. 



Sterna more or less obsoletely sculptured. 



Abdomen smooth, apical half of fifth segment finely and densely 

 punctured ; surface more or less obsoletely and irregularly rugose. 



Legs rather feebly sculptured, except the distal half of the tibiae, 

 which are densely muricato-punctate. Tarsi dissimilar in the sexes. 

 Femora mutic. 



Male. Rather more elongate, less convex and a little narrower. 

 Abdomen slightly oblique to the sterna, feebly flattened. First two joints 

 of the anterior tarsi clothed beneath with pads of rather coarse golden 



