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proportionate len,t;ths of the stmt, ring and dorsal loljcs as 3-5 : 2 : 3, the lobes fused 

 together for nearly half their length ; the spiciilum similar to that of R. malloli, 

 but the fork forming almost a right angle. Genitalia of 9 : the spermatheca as shown 

 (fig- 7, b). 



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



United Provinces : Jhabberkhet, Dehra Dun, bred from log of Shorea robusta, 

 vi.l916 (C. F. C. Beeson — type) ; Kotdwara, Lansdowne Division, bred from 

 Shorea, ix.l917. Punjab: Thano, Siwalik Hills, bred from Eugenia, vi.l918 

 [Beeson). 



The three previously described Indian species of Rhadinomerus (Faust, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv 1894 (1895), pp. 279-281) are known to me from description 

 only. R. granicoUis is distinguished from all the species here described by its 

 granulato-punctate prothorax and the elytra bear .spatulate suberect setae. R. 

 conciliatus is characterised by its cylindrical elytra, the intervals of which bear 

 minute granules and erect hairlike setae, the prothorax being oblong and parallel- 

 sided. The most distinctive features of R. contcmptus appear to be that the prothorax 

 is roundly dilated before the middle and that it is densely squamose both at the sides 

 and at the apex. 



Rhadinopus buteae, sp. nov. (fig. 12). 



^ $. — Colour black or red-brown, with dense, pale brown scaling and very broad 

 erect scale-like setae ; the pronotum with an indefinite blackish patch on each side 

 of the middle line near the ba.se and a few white setae in the middle of the disk ; 

 the elytra each with an ill-defined oblique whitish band running from about the middle 

 of the suture towards the shoulder, but terminating on interval 5, and just behind 

 this on interval 2 an elongate patch of dense erect blackish setae ; the lower surface 

 rather thinly clothed with obliquely raised broad pale scales. 



Fig. 12. Rhadinopus buteae, sp. n. 



Head closely punctate on the vertex, each puncture containing a minute seta ; 

 the forehead not impressed, more coarsely punctate and with dense scales, which are 

 recumbent behind and erect in front, the interocular space parallel-sided. Rostnnn 



