122 HN'TOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT 1912. 



Eucurtia paradoxa n. sp. 



(Plate I.) 



The upper surface shining, reddish castaneous, puncture- 

 less, the disc of the pronotum, the propygidium, the pygidium 

 and the sternum a Httle darker. The basal joint of the 

 antennae big and strongly dilatated, totally received into 



Fig. I. Eucurtia paradoxa Mjöb. n. sp. Ventral view. 



cavities on the prothorax, the front vertical, with rugulous 

 sculpture and many small groupes of short erect setae. The 

 prothorax short and broad, the lateral margin distinctly 

 upturned, boarded by yellow hairs, near the hind angles 

 tree or four small pencils of yellow setae; a area before 

 each hind angle transversally striated by smal, deep, parallel 

 lines. The legs of moderate length, the tibiae dilatated, 

 the tarsi long; the elytra about in the middle deeply impres- 

 sed; in this impression and near the inner side of the tubiform 

 processus 'a protruding point with a yellow hair at the top.. 



