Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 76. (Budapest 1984)

Kirejtshuk, A. G.: New taxa of Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Indo-Malayan fauna

as wide as antennái club. Fore tarsus hardly wider than intermediate and hind ones. •— Genitalia: Ovipositor slightly sclerotised. Variation. Length 2.8-3.3, breadth 1.5-1.6 mm. The dark pigmentation may be slightlyexpressed or absent. Sometimes the dorsum is with faint shine and reticulate. The elytrae of some paratypes are not wider than pronotum. Diagnosis. — E. sjoebergi sp. n. is undoubtedly a member of the braeti-group formulated by JELINEK (1978) but distinct from all other species of this group in its acuminate Figs. 39-47. Epuraea sjoebergi sp. n. ç? : 39 = body shape, with contour of pattern, 40 = antenna, 41 = intermediate tibia, 42 = hind tibia, 43 = tegmen, ventral view, 44 = idem, lateral view, 45 = penis, dorsal view, 46 = idem, lateral view, $ : 47 = ovipositor, ventral view. — Figs. 48-52. Epuraea ornatula sp. n. 48 = body shape, with contour of pattern, 49 = tegmen, ventral view, 50 = idem, lateral view, 51 = penis, dorsal view, 9 : 52 = ovipositor, ventral view. — A = scale to Figs. 39, 48; B = scale to Figs. 40-42; C = scale to Figs. 43-47; D = scale to Figs. 49-52