. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. RHIIfYPTIA. 269 $ . The abdomen is convex beueatb, tlie tenniiial tooth of the front tibia is blunt and club-shaped, and the longer front claw is almost equally cleft. Key to the Species. 1 (8) Clypeus with a very sharp median lonoitudiual keel. 2 (3) Rostrum distinctly longer than broad, indica, Bmm., i^. 269. 3 (2) Rostrum shorter than broad. 4 (7) Clypeus distinctly punctured. 5 (6) Suture not dark 7iiyrifrons, Kr., p. 270. 6 (5) Suture dark snti/ralin, Kr., p. 270. 7 (4) Clypeus .shining, scarcely punctured. meridionalis, Arr., y. 271. 8 (1) Clype
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. RHIIfYPTIA. 269 $ . The abdomen is convex beueatb, tlie tenniiial tooth of the front tibia is blunt and club-shaped, and the longer front claw is almost equally cleft. Key to the Species. 1 (8) Clypeus with a very sharp median lonoitudiual keel. 2 (3) Rostrum distinctly longer than broad, indica, Bmm., i^. 269. 3 (2) Rostrum shorter than broad. 4 (7) Clypeus distinctly punctured. 5 (6) Suture not dark 7iiyrifrons, Kr., p. 270. 6 (5) Suture dark snti/ralin, Kr., p. 270. 7 (4) Clypeus .shining, scarcely punctured. meridionalis, Arr., y. 271. 8 (1) Clypeus not sharply keeled longi- tudinally l(sviceps, sp. n., p. 272. 293. Rhinyptia indica. Rhi7iypti(t indica, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 228. Rhinyptia testacea, Nonfr. Berl. Ent. Zeits. x.\xvi, 1892, p. 230 (n. syn.). Pale yellow, with the tarsi and clypeus dark red, and the forehead and vertex nearly black. The body is rather elongate, parallel-sided and moderately convex. It is smooth, shining and only very thinly clothed ^\dth pale hair beneath. The clypeus and fore- head are finely and densely rugose, and the vertex rather closely punctured. The clypeus is small, with its sides strongly bisinuated and converging to a nra-row strongly recurved rostrum, longer than it is wide, rounded at the end, and strongly and sharply earinate along the middle. The pro- notum is finely and closely punctured, broad at the base and gently rounded at llie sides^ with the front angles sharp and nearly right angles, and the hind angles blunt and rounded. The scutellum bears some fine punctures, and the elytra are strongly punctate-striate, with a broad, irregularly punctured second (subsutural) interval and a less broad fourth interval, irregularly punctured on the posterior half; the punctures becoming reduced to a single line upon its anterior half. The pygidium is strongly and moderately closely punctured. The metasternum is densely punctured at the sides, and the abdomen rather lax
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