RHIIfYPTIA. 269 



$ . The abdomen is convex beueatb, tlie tenniiial tooth of the 

 front tibia is blunt and club-shaped, and the longer front claw is 

 almost equally cleft. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (8) Clypeus with a very sharp median 



lonoitudiual keel. 



2 (3) Rostrum distinctly longer than broad, indica, Bmm., i^. 269. 



3 (2) Rostrum shorter than broad. 



4 (7) Clypeus distinctly punctured. 



5 (6) Suture not dark 7iiyrifrons, Kr., p. 270. 



6 (5) Suture dark snti/ralin, Kr., p. 270. 



7 (4) Clypeus .shining, scarcely punctured. . meridionalis, Arr., y. 271. 



8 (1) Clypeus not sharply keeled longi- 



tudinally l(sviceps, sp. n., p. 272. 



293. Rhinyptia indica. 



Rhi7iypti(t indica, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 1 , 1844, p. 228. 

 Rhinyptia testacea, Nonfr. Berl. Ent. Zeits. x.\xvi, 1892, p. 230 

 (n. syn.). 



Pale yellow, with the tarsi and clypeus dark red, and the 

 forehead and vertex nearly black. 



The body is rather elongate, parallel-sided and moderately 

 convex. It is smooth, shining and only very thinly clothed ^\dth 

 pale hair beneath. The clypeus and fore- 

 head are finely and densely rugose, and 

 the vertex rather closely punctured. The 

 clypeus is small, with its sides strongly 

 bisinuated and converging to a nra-row 

 strongly recurved rostrum, longer than it is 

 wide, rounded at the end, and strongly and 

 sharply earinate along the middle. The pro- 

 notum is finely and closely punctured, broad 

 at the base and gently rounded at llie sides^ 

 with the front angles sharp and nearly 

 right angles, and the hind angles blunt 

 and rounded. The scutellum bears some 

 fine punctures, and the elytra are strongly 

 punctate-striate, with a broad, irregularly 

 punctured second (subsutural) interval and a less broad fourth 

 interval, irregularly punctured on the posterior half; the punctures 

 becoming reduced to a single line upon its anterior half. The 

 pygidium is strongly and moderately closely punctured. The 

 metasternum is densely punctured at the sides, and the abdomen 

 rather laxly. The front tibia is tridentate, the uppermost tooth 

 rather feeble, the inner claw of the front foot is cleft, and the rest 

 are simple. 



(S . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is rather long. 

 5 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is blunt. 

 Length, 13-16 mm. ; breadth, 7-8 mm. 



Fig. 57. — Rhinyptia 

 indica. 



