232 CETONIIN^, 



Genus XENOREODERUS, nov. 



Type, Oreoderus humilis, Gestro. 



Range. The Oriental Eegion. 



Body stout and compact, clothed with scales and hairs, some of 

 Avhich form erect tufts upon the pronotum and propypidium. 

 Clypeus moderately broad in front and strongly contracted before 

 the eyes. Prothorax narrower than the combined width of the 

 elytra, not bearing produced dorsal carinse anteriorly. 8cutellum 

 moderately short. Terminal spiracles borne upon prominent 

 tubercles at the hind margin of the propygidium. Legs moderately 

 slender, the front tibia armed with three strong teeth, tlie tarsi 

 slender and the first joint of the hind tarsus equal in length to 

 the second. 



I have detected no sexual differences in the specimens 

 examined. 



This genus is intermediate in its chai'acters between Oreoderus 

 and Dasyval/jus. Its species are probably rather numerous, Vahjvs 

 py(jmceus, G. & P., being one of them. This species is quoted in 

 the Munich Catalogue as inhabiting " India orientalis." Its exact 

 habitat was unknown to the original describers, but it was found 

 by Dr. Schaum (see Ann. iSoc. Ent. Prance, 1844, p. ^99) to be a 

 Malayan species. 



Key to the Species. 



Elytral scales uniform and evenly distributed, humilix, Gestro, p. 232. 

 Elytral scales unevenly distributed occideiitalia, sp. n., p. 233. 



213. Xenoreoderus humilis. 



Oreoderus humilis, Gestro,* Avn, Miis. Genoiri, (2) x, 1891, 

 p. 863. 



Black, or nearly black, with the antenna; and legs reddish, and 

 the body rather uniformly clothed above and 

 below with greyish scales. 



The body is small but stoutly built and 

 the legs are slender. The clyptus is bare 

 and granular, rounded in front. The pro- 

 thorax is about as long as it is wide at the 

 base, bell-shaped, with the sides regularly 

 curved and not contracted at the base, the 

 hind margin strongly ronuded and the hind 

 angles obtuse. There is a slight median 

 Fiff. bi). groove bordered by a double vow nf brown 



Xenoreoderus hurnilh. tufted tubercles, viz. a pair near the front 

 margin, a pair near the middle and a pair 

 near the base. There are also two external tufts on each side, one 

 near the middle and the other just before the hind angle. The 

 scutellxmi is rather short and not very sharp at the apex. The 



