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Maxillae with a very briefly trifid basal tooth, elytra clothed with 

 appressed, sub-squamiform yellow hairs veitita. 



Maxillae with a simple, basal tooth ; elytra with a marginal band 

 and two transverse discoidal ones formed by small, yellow 

 scales fallax. 



Maxillae with a tritid basal tooth but having numerous hooked 

 cilise above it ; elytra covered with orange-yellow scales and 

 having two transverse rows of brown spots on each side .. .. stigiiiatica. 



A\ Maxillae pluri-dentate. 



Maxillae with three long, claw-like teeth, the basal one non-bifid ; 

 elytra clothed with short black hairs and having two transverse 

 bands of yellow scales ijttttata. 



Maxillae with three short, briefly bifid teeth ; elytra covered with 

 appressed sub-squamose yellow hairs interspersed with black 

 hairs, but forming no design diihio.-<(i. 



Maxillae with three long, claw-like teeth the basal one of which is 

 slightly bifid ; elyti'a clothed with very dense flavous squamosa 

 hairs having on each side two somewhat denuded patches . . . . hypocritu. 



Maxillae with slender, long, claw-like teeth ; elytra clothed with very 

 dense orange-yellow ovate scales leaving on each side a sub-basal, 

 a median, and a supra-apical denuded space xemUnrla. 



Maxillae with four short teeth, the apical and basal ones of which 

 are bifid ; elytra with a supra-marginal band of yellow scales 

 ascending the suture, and two similar arcuate bands bi-interrupted 

 on each side decora. 



Eriesthis pusilla, n. spec. 



Black, with the head and the prothorax clothed with very dense 

 erect greyish flavescent hairs, and having along the posterior margin 

 a band of short, squamose, more plainly flavescent appressed ones ; 

 scutellum clothed with yellow, not contiguous yellowish scales, 

 elytra testaceous, not costate but with the apical callus well developed, 

 clothed with dense erect greyish hairs, but sprinkled with appressed, 

 yellowish, elongate scales somewhat hair-like but not hiding the 

 testaceous ground colour ; pygidial part clothed with dense sub- 

 lanuginose appressed hairs flavescent in the male, greyish in the 

 female ; head very scabrose, clypeus as broad as long, plainly 

 narrowed laterally towards the apex, and narrower and more 

 sharply acuminate than in the other species of the genus, emarginate 

 in the centre and with the outer angles sharp ; prothorax covered 

 with contiguous cicatricose punctures enclosing a smaller, round, 

 setigerous one ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate. 



This species is intermediate in form between Eriesthis and 



