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patches ; the lower surface with a few sparse pale scales, especially towards the sides, 

 and obliquely raised flattened setae down the middle. 



Fig. 6. Rhadinomerus bomhacis, sp. n. 



/fm^? coarsely reticulate on the vertex, the forehead with den.se recumbent scales, 

 which are larger behind than in front and partly conceal the median furrow, which 

 is rather shorter and shallower than usual. Rostrum with the usual four coarsely 

 punctate furrows and three narrow carinae at the base ; the antennae inserted a 

 little in front of the middle in (^ and a little behind it in 2. Antennae with the 

 funicle clothed with dense, erect pubescence ; the comparative lengths of the funicular 

 joints, beginning with the longest, are as follows : (1, 2) (3, 4) (5, 6) 7, all being longer 

 than broad except 7, which is as broad as long or slightly transverse ; the club only 

 slightly broader than the funicle, its first joint not longer than the second. ProtJiorax 

 a little broader than long, with the sides very gently rounded, broadest about the 

 middle, very slightly narrowed behind and much more so in front, with a shallow 

 constriction near the apex ; the dorsum, except the apical area, set with very large, 

 deep, reticulate punctures, and sometimes with a trace of a much abbreviated median 

 ridge ; the punctures on the pleurae smaller and much shallower and with the intervals 

 duller and more punctate ; the pale scales much larger than those on the elytra, 

 oblong, convex and veined ; at the base of each puncture a suberect dark spatulate 

 seta directed forwards. ScuteJlnm small, rounded, very convex and prominent. 

 Elytra subcordate, much broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, which are 

 roundly rectangular, with the sides subparallel from the shoulders to the middle 

 and rather abruptly narrowed behind, being markedly constricted at some distance 

 before the apex ; the large deep subquadrate punctures becoming much shallower 

 behind ; the slightly convex intervals as broad as the punctures and a little higher 

 than the septa between them, with indistinct granules, which are more evident near 

 the base, where the intervals are rather higher, each granule bearing a slightly raised 

 short scale-like seta. Legs with dense, light brown scaling ; all the femora with a 

 faint, pale dorsal patch beyond the middle, behind which on the posterior pairs is 

 a large dark patch ; the tibiae with the basal half darker, except for a pale dorsal 



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