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a few similar scales scattered over the disk, and with short, erect, dark setae; 

 the elytra rather thinly clothed with uniform pale brown scales (sometimes variegated 

 with paler spots), and with obliquely raised pale squamiform setae ; the sternum 

 with sparse, pale, fine erect setae, the venter with a very few pale scales and with 

 flattened, erect, pale setae. 



Fig. 8. Rhadiriomerus diversipes, sp. n. 



Head bare and coarsely but shallowly reticulate on the vertex ; the forehead on 

 a slightly lower plane, with much shallower and smaller punctures, and with dense 

 pale scales ; the frontal furrow very broad and deep. Rostrum tricarinate at the 

 base, as usual, with a small patch of raised pale scales in the middle of the base and 

 some erect, pale, squamiform setae; the antennal insertion at ($) or beyond (,^) 

 the middle. Antennae testaceous, with the apical half of the funicle clothed with 

 sparse, recumbent pubescence ; the funicular joints in order of diminishing length : 

 (1, 2), 3, 4, 5, (6, 7) ; 5 as long as broad, 6 and 7 slightly transverse, the rest longer 

 than broad ; the club with the basal joint a little shorter than the rest together. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long (11:9), with the sides rounded, broadest at the 

 middle, slightly narrowed to the base and shallowly constricted at the apex ; the 

 reticulate punctures not very large, but deep ; the interspaces dull, finely coriaceous, 

 and sloping inwards towards the puncture, each bearing a single erect, compressed, 

 dark seta ; the median carina reduced to a very short sinuous line in the middle, 

 and sometimes almost obliterated. Scutellum almost circular, strongly convex, 

 shiny, and with a few short recumbent hairs. Elytra subcylindrical, shallowly 

 constricted close to the apex and with an obtuse posterior callus ; the oblong punctures 

 deep and diminishing behind, each covered by an oblong horizontal scale attached 

 to the front margin, and on each side a small blackish prominence within the puncture ; 

 the intervals about as broad as the punctures, somewhat raised and rugulose close 

 to the base, but almost smooth elsewhere ; the scales varying from oval to oblong, 

 not sufficiently dense as to conceal the entire integument, and shorter than those on 

 the apical area of the prothorax ; the setae compressed, obliquely raised, and in 

 widely spaced rows. Legs with not very dense, uniformlj^ pale brown scales ; the 



