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ly yellow, with short, thick hairs at the angle of di- 

 vergence, but not with spines. 



Female. Front .342 of head (aA^erage of five, — 

 .321, .327, .343, .355, .362), with the usual two orbital 

 bristles. Palpi large and much thickened at apex, 

 bare except on lower edge. Genital segment red ; the 

 last sternite not at all protruding, soft and rather 

 distinctly trilobed before the transv^erse genital open- 

 ing. 



Four males, two females, reared from adult 

 Eleodes ohsolcta at Maxwell, N. M., by J. S. Wade 

 and D. J. Caffrey (Webster No. 11148) ; four males 

 and ten females, reared from E. tricostata adult at 

 Maxwell, N. M., by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 

 11146) ; one male, three females, reared from E. ex- 

 iricata adult at Maxwell, N. M., by J. S. Wade and 

 D. J. Caffrey (Webster No. 11141); three males, 

 reared from E. hispilabris adult at Maxwell, N. M., 

 by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 111.56) ; two males, one 

 female, reared from E. tricostata adult at Alliance, 

 Neb., by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 14952) ; one fe- 

 male, reared from E. ohsoleta adult at Golden, Colo., 

 by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 14972) ; two males, one 

 female, reared from adult E. ohsoleta at La Junta, 

 Colo., by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 155504); one 

 male, three females, reared from Asida ohvata adult 

 at La Junta, Colo., by J. S. Wade (Webster No. 

 15505) ; one female reared from adult E. hispilabris 

 at Koehler, N. M., by V. L. Wildermuth (Webster 

 No. 12727) ; one female, reared from E. ohsoleta at 

 Trinidad, Colo., by H. F. Wickham (Webster No. 

 14999) ; one male, reared from adult E. fusiformis at 

 Maxwell, N. M., by J. S. Wade (Cage 16645) ; four 

 males, three females, reared from adults of E. ohso- 

 leta and tricostata near Koehler, N. M.; two are la- 

 beled "Larva from adult Eleodes tricostata which 

 died in Cage 1"; two are from larvfu that emerged 

 from dead S])ecimens of E. ohsoleta found in the field. 



Two males, Colorado (Kx])eriment Station), 

 Nos. 1527 and 1631, in the Hough collection. 



