NEW SPECIES OF CUKCULIONIDAl': 



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indefinite, basal chitinous extension of the lloor of the lobe ; the uneverted sac 

 extending between the struts for three-fourths of their length, its terminal third 

 covered with asperities, the transfer-apparatus conspicuous and in the form of two 

 juxtaposed crook walking-sticks with the crooks turned outwards ; the tegmen 

 (fig. 11, a) with the proportionate lengths of the strut, ring and dorsal lobes as 

 4:2-5:5, the lobes being fused together for one-third of their length from the 

 base ; the spiculum as broad as the tegminal strut, widely dilated at the apex, and 

 the basal fork forming a right angle with the branches nearly equal in length! 

 Length, 3-5-2 mm. ; breadth, 1-4-2-4 mm. 



United Provinces : Lachiwala, Dehra Dun, bred from Eugenia jaman, x.1914 

 (C. F. C. Beeson— type), and from Shorea robiista, xi.l915 {Beeson) ; Surajbagh, 

 Dehra Dun, bred from Eugenia jaman, xi.l915 {Beeson) ; Jubberkhet, Dehra Dun, 

 bred from Shorea, xii. 1915-1.191 6 [Beeson). 



Described from 8 specimens. 



Fig. 11. Male genitalia (tegmen) of (a) Rhadinomerus diversipes, sp. n. ; (b) R. malloti, sp. n. 

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



Rhadinomerus malloti, sp. nov. 



(^ ?.— Head and prothorax blackish, the latter with yellowish brown scales on 

 the apical area only ; the elytra piceous, irregularly mottled with lighter and darker 

 brown scaling ; the lower surface without true scales, but sparsely set with short 

 and comparatively fine setae. 



Extremely similar to R. diversipes, but distinctly broader in proportion to its 

 length. In that species the intervals between most of the punctures on the prothorax 

 are flattened and tilted inwards towards the puncture, so that the ridge is on the 

 outer or posterior edge ; in R. malloti these intervals are normally convex with the 

 ridge approximately in the middle. The scales in R. diversipes are oblong, with the 

 apex truncate or broadly rounded; in R. malloti they are narrowly ovate or lanceo- 

 late, with the apex pointed, and the setae are distinctly narrower. In the present 

 species ventrite 3 (1st visible) is more closely punctate, the punctures being three 

 deep behind the coxa ; ventrite 4 is also coar.sely punctate, but less densely so than 



