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the base very gently rounded, the front angles slightly acute and 

 the hind angles obtuse. The scutellum bears a few punctures, 

 and the elytra are rather deeply striate-punctate, the second and 

 fifth rows of punctures not occupying striae, the former disrupted 

 in its anterior half and the latter abbreviated behind. The 

 pygidium is moderately and evenly punctured and shining, and 

 the metasternurn rather coarsely punctured and thinly hairy. 

 The front tibia is trideutate, the uppermost tooth feeble, and the 

 front tarsus is very long and slender. 



I have not seen a female of this species. 



Length, 10-11 mm.; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



PERSIA : Saidabad ; AFGHANISTAN : Gulistan ; PUNJAB : Bannu 

 (Dr. Pennell}. 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



296. EMnyptia meridionalis. 



Rhinyptia meridionalis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 

 1911, p. 356. 



Pale testaceous, with the clypeus and tarsi red, the rest of the 

 head, the suture and posterior margins of the elytra, and an 

 oblique mark on each side of the pronotum near the base, black. 

 The sutural stripe is generally dilated around the scutellum, and 

 in well-marked individuals there is an additional black mark upon 

 the apical callus of each elytron. In pale specimens the thoracic 

 marks disappear. 



The shape is elongate-oval, and the whole body is very smooth 

 and shining, with very scanty hairs beneath. The clypeus is 

 glossy and almost unpunctured, with its sides convergent to the 

 point of flexure, the median carina very sharp, and the rostrum 

 short, with the front margin rounded. The forehead is finely 

 and closely punctured. The pronotum is broad, convex, moderately 

 finely and closely punctured, and gently rounded at the sides. 

 The scutellum bears a few punctures, and the elytra are regularly 

 and moderately strongly striate-punctate, the 2nd row of punctures 

 breaking up in its anterior half. The pygidium is deeply and 

 coarsely punctured, the metasternum coarsely punctured and 

 thinly hairy. The front tibia is tridentate, the uppermost tooth 

 being very obtuse and feeble; the larger claw of the front foot is 

 cleft, and the smaller one is less than half as long as the larger 

 and strongly curved. 



Length, 12-5-13-5 mm.; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



CEYLON : Peradeniya (E. E. Green, Oct., Nov.) ; MADRAS : 

 Pallode, Trivandrum ; Maddathorai, Travancore ; Tenmalai, "W. 

 Ghats; Chikkaballapura(r. V. Campbell). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



R. meridionalis var. puncticollis, nov. 



Pale testaceous, with the clypeus and tarsi red, the rest of the 

 head, the elytral suture, a pair of anterior spots and a larger pair 



