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GUY A. K. MARSHALL. 



spot at the extreme base. Abdomen with coarse deep punctures on ventrites 3, 4 

 and 7 (nominally 1, 2 and 5), the punctures on the two former being denser on the 

 disk than at the sides ; ventrites 5 and 6 impunctate and with the anterior edge 

 crenulated. 



Genitalia of (^ : the median lobe (fig. 10, c) oblong, troughlike and very slightly 

 narrowed towards the base, only lightly chitinised, except the inflexed lateral margins 

 and a transverse strip close to the apex, the latter area being dispersely punctate, 

 the apex broadly rounded, the base forming a sharp right angle on each side, and the 

 median orifice membranous and inconspicuous ; the median struts slender, two- 

 thirds longer than the lobe, with a strong double sinuation in the basal third, and 

 connected together for a short distance at the base by an indefinite extension of the 

 lightly chitinised floor of the lobe ; the uneverted sac extending between the struts 

 to the end of the sinuated part, containing a small, median, lanceolate, chitinous 

 patch in the lobe close to its base, and the transfer-apparatus at the extremity of the 

 sac composed of two short juxtaposed hairpin-shaped pieces ; the tegmen (fig. 11, c) 

 with the strut a little shorter than the ring, and this again shorter than the lobes, 

 which are fused together for a very short distance at the base ; the spiculum twice as 

 thick as the median struts and slightly dilated at the apex, the basal fork forming 

 a very wide angle, one branch being twice as long as the other and abruptly curved 

 at its apical third. Genitalia of $ : spermatheca as shown (fig. 7, a). 



Length, 3 -8-6 -5 mm. ; breadth, 1-8-3 -5 mm. 



United Provinces : Pathri, Sarahanpur, bred from logs of Bonibax malabarica, 

 xii.1917-iv.1918 (C. F. C. Beeson). 



Bihar & Orissa : Singhbhum, from Bomhax malabarica, i.l921 {Beeson). 

 Described from 24 specimens. 



Fig. 7. Spermatheca of {a) Rhadinomeriis bombacis, sp. n. ; (5) R. subfasciatus, sp. n. ; 

 (c) R. malloti, sp. n. ; [d) Alecistocrrus fiinwsiis, sp. n. 



Rhadinomerus diversipes, sp. nov. (fig. 8). 



(J ?.— Head and prothorax blackish brown ; elytra, venter and legs red-brown ; 

 the prothorax with the apical area densely clothed with pale brown scales and 



