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apex of tlie hind tibiae of the (^ alone produced inwardly almost at right angles to 

 the tibia in the form of a lamina (fig. 9), having at its apex two short teeth representing 



Fig. 9. Hind tibia of Rhadinomerus divcrsipes, sp. a. (J. 



the uncus and mucro, the former being the longer. Abdomen with very large 

 separated punctures on ventrite 3 (1st visible), the punctures being at most two 

 deep on the shortest portions (l)ehind the coxae) ; ventrites 4-6 with only a few 

 much smaller punctures close to the lateral margins ; ventrite 7 coarsely and closely 

 punctate ; 5-7 with the anterior edge very broadly emarginate and bearing a close 

 fringe of short hairs, the emargination forming a well-marked obtuse angle at 

 each end. 



Genitalia of (^ : the median lobe (fig. 10, a) oblong, parallel-sided, and moderately 



Fig. 10. Male genitalia (median lobe) of (a) Rhadinomerus diversipes, sp. n. 

 (c) R. bombacis, sp. n. ; (d) R. subfasciatus, sp. n. 



[b) R. malloti, sp. n. 



chitinised throughout, except for an apical hyaline area which is broadly truncate, 

 the base sharply angulate on each side, the median orifice at about the middle of 

 the lobe, and the apical half with a few sparse punctures ; the median struts slender, 

 gently sinuous throughout, and half as long again as the lobe, with which they do not 

 definitely unite but merge gradually into the lateral edges of an abruptly narrowed, 



