376 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoLaces. 
bay Presidency. This specimen may have been taken at the 
same place. 
Hispella ramosa, Gyll. 
Gyll. in Schonh., Sy. Jus. 1, 3, App. 1817, p. 6. 
Gestro, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1897, p. 124, f. 13. 
Localities.—Paresnath, W. Bengal, 4,000-4,400 ft., I5-iv-09 
(Annandale); Bangalore, S. India, 3,000 ft., 15-x-Io (Annandale) ; 
Dhikala, Naini Tal District, U.P., 26-iv-08 (Mus. Collr.). Three 
examples. 
This species is apparently confined to the hills. 
Hispella andrewesi, Ws. 
Weise, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 126. 
Locality.—Monda, Nepal, 12-v-o8 (Mus. Collr.) One ex- 
ample. 
The spines on the first and second joints of the antennae 
being broken, I doubtfully indentify this example. There is also 
a difference in the colour of the elytra, but no structural differ- 
ence is observable. H. andrewest, Ws. was taken at Kanara. 
Genus Rhadinosa, Weise. 
Weise, Deut. Ent. Zett. 1905, p. 318. 
Rhadinosa laghu,! n, sp. 
Oblong, small, not thickset as the other members of this 
genus, black, with a faint metallic sheen, in some specimens the 
colour is a mixture of testaceous and black, subnitid, thoracic 
and elytral spines are long and slender as compared with the size 
of the insect, sparsely covered with white adpressed hairs; elytra 
deeply punctate-striate; besides these deep punctures, the surface 
is very minutely punctate. This character distinguishes this 
species from all others of the genus. 
Length from head to apex of the elytra 3-5 mm. 
Described from 15 examples. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Localities.—12 examples from Calcutta, 3—4-viii-o7 (N.A.); 
Mangaldai, Assam, 16—r18-x-10 (Kemp); Siliguri, base of E. 
Himalayas, 3—4-vi-rg11 (N.A. and S.K.); Basanti, Forest Station, 
24 Parganas, Sunderbuns, 16-xi-og (T. Jenkins). 
Fuller description. 
Head coarsely punctate, not rugose, from the vertex to a 
point between the bases of the antennae deeply sulcate, a row of 
1 Laghu is a Sanskrit word meaning light. The name is applied to this 
species in reference to its light build. 
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