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stout, reaching middle of prothorax in c/", apical fourth in 9, 

 gradually widened from segment 6, ''2 mudi longer than 1, in 

 (/■ 3 longer than 2, nearly =1,4 to 8 gradually shorter, 8 as 

 broad as long, club elongate, 9 rounded proximally, truncate 

 apically, broader than long, 10 broader than 9, more than 

 twice as broad as long, 11 truncate proximally, irregularly 

 rounded distally, a little longer than broad, a small interspace 

 at the joints of the club ; in 9 2 = 3 = 4 , 5 a little shorter, 

 5 to 7 gradually shortened, 7 and 8 as long as broad, club a 

 little shorter than in </• Prothorax conical, uneven above; carina 

 antebasal, concave, gradually flexed forward laterally, but not 

 becoming longitudinal, no subbasal carina and no basal longi- 

 tudinal one. Elytra emarginate together at base , depressed 

 above, sides parallel from shoulder to apical third. Pygidium 

 rounded. Forecoxae somewhat separate. Mesosternal process sub- 

 vertical. Legs short; first tarsal segment little longer than apically 

 broad, second mesially shorter than its lobes, claw-segment as 

 long as 1 to 3 together, tooth of claw subbasal. 



Near Sintor. 



Type: E. loriae spec. nov. 



2. Eizsintor loriae spec. nov. 



c/" 9 • Black ; upperside of rostrum and head , pronotum , a 

 basal suturai patch on elytra and their apex, pygidium and 

 legs (except basal half or two-thirds of hindfemur) rufous orange, 

 clothed with a greyish orange pubescence, partly metallic; 

 antenna rufescent, brunnescent distally, four or five spots on 

 each half of pronotum black , namely one subapical , a second 

 before carina, both close to mesial line, a third more lateral, 

 median, a fourth behind and a fifth obliquely in front of the 

 third , the fifth often absent , all more or less connected with 

 one another, some grey pubescence in dorsal depressions; scu- 

 tellum grey ; elytrum with a grey patch on disc near shoulder 

 and another behind middle, both variable in size and mostly 

 divided up , a small conspicuous lateral postmedian spot greyish 



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