Excerpt from A Monographic Revision of the Coleoptera Belonging to the Tenebrionide Tribe Eleodiini Inhabiting the United States, Lower California, and Adjacent Islands My method has been radically different from any heretofore pur sued in the United States and it has been a laborious one. In the following pages I have set forth the results of my investigations 'and deductions which have been carried on during past five years. About one thousand specimens have been dissected during this time and over five thousand studied superficially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Blaisdell attempts a revision of the Eleodiini belonging to the Tenebriodae group of Coleoptera by using the primary sexual characters, and where possible, mouth-parts to correlate the data obtained with characters already known.

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