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Elytra not broadly oval to suboblong, widest at the middle and about 

 one-half wider than long; disk more or less evenly and feebly convex 

 in the central area, broadly and stronglj convex laterally, and more or 

 less vertically declivous posteriorly; surface sculpturing without any 

 evidence of order, intervals between the tubercles not rugose, laterally 

 the tubercles are feebly asperate and the setae minute. Otherwise as 

 in pimcUoides. 



$ . — Narrower and oblong-ovate. Abdomen feebly convex, first seg- 

 ment somewhat impressed at middle ; feebly oblique to the sterna. 

 First two joints of the protarsi with darkish tufts of pubescence, the 

 tuft of the first joint is truncate at tip, larger and more rounded than 

 that of the second, here the tuft is apical and transverse ; the third 

 joint has a divided tuft and the plantar groove is distinct, the meso- 

 tarsi have a quite small, transverse, apical tuft on the first joint. 



$. — Broader and ovate. First joint of the protarsi rounded and 

 thickened at tip beneath: second and third joints transversely thick- 

 ened at tips. 



Measurements. — Length, lo.o ($) to 11.5 (9) mm.; width, 5.0 

 ($) io 5.75 ( 9 ) mm. 



Types ( S and 9 ) in the collection of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Type locality : Provo Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah. 

 Collector J. R. Slevin, May 21st, 1913. Xuniber of speci- 

 mens studied, 19. 



Remarks: Patruclis is rather more robust than pinielioides, 

 the sculpturing finer, the sides of the pronotum are more 

 broadly rounded and the constriction is distinctly shorter. 



Eleodes (Blapylis) cordata var. horrida n. var. 



Form as in cordata. Deep black, polished and shining. Head sculp- 

 tured as in cordata. Pronotal disk coarsely, very denselv, deeply and 

 more or less confluently punctate ; intervals mere convex lines. 



Elytra very coarsely, densely and rugosely muricato-tuberculate 

 throughout, with longitudinal series of punctures that are more or less 

 distinct. 



$ . — Narrower than in typical cordata. 

 9 . — Elytra less broadly oval. 



Measurements. — 5, length, 10.5 mm.; width, 4.5 mm. 9 , length, ii.o 

 mm. ; width, 5.7 mm. 



Types : i and 9 in the author's collection. Collectors 

 Blaisdell and Letcher. 



Type locality and habitat : Davis' Meadow, near Railroad 

 Flat, Calaveras County, California; elev. 1400 ft., June. 



