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BUTELIN^. 



setae, which are a little closer and longer upon the pygidium and 

 lower surface. It is rather parallel-sided and moderately convex. 

 The head is rugulose, the clypeus broad, 

 with a strongly reflexed margin. Tlie pro- 

 notum is short and broad, much broader 

 than the head across the eyes, with deep, 

 rather scattered punctures, the lateral mar- 

 gins strongly rounded, the hind angles 

 scarcely traceable. The scutellum bears a 

 few punctures, and the elytra are rather 

 strongly but not rugulosely punctured, with 

 distinct double lines of punctures. The 

 pygidium is clotlied with very fine, mode- 



^. „r T- 1 4 o rately close hair. The front tibia is armed 

 Fig. 65.—Lzssadoretus •' 



pallidum, 6. ''''*^' ^'^''^^ ''^7 '?^''^'}S t«^^^- 



6 . The pygidium is rather closely clothed, 



but the apical part is devoid of hair and has a rounded elevation 



in the middle. The front angles of the prothorax are very 



obtuse. The reflexed margin of the clypeus has a very slight, and 



sometimes imperceptible, notch in the middle. 



5 . The pronotum is very broad and its front angles are slightly 

 acute. The pygidium is less thickly clothed, with a bare median 

 line. 



Length, 9-10 mm.; breadth, 4-5-5-5 mm. 



Punjab: Taru, Peshawar Distr. {T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, May), 

 Laiiore (July), Khanewali {T. B. Fletcher, Aug.). 



Tgpe in the British Museum. 



This insect appears to resemble Pseudadorefus (subg. Ejxidoretvs) 

 reiiteri, 8em., a smaller species from Turkestan, but tlie structural 

 differences are important. 



Genus PSEUDADORETUS. 



Pseudadoreius, ^Gmeno\, Horse Soc. Ent. Ross, xxiv, 1890, p. 202 ; 

 Reitter, Verb. Nat. Ver. Briinii, xli, 1903, p. 33. 



Type, Pseudadoretus dihitellus, Sem. 



Range. Western Asia. 



Ovate, rather compact and convex, and almost without hairy 

 clothing. Integument very thin and uniformly pale in colour, 

 with the eyes and mouth-parts alone dark. Head large, witli the 

 eyes very prominent and the clypeus uniformly rounded. Pro- 

 notum very small, narrower than the elytra at the shoulders. 

 Elytra smooth, shining and semitransparent. Front and middle 

 legs with fringes of long hairs ; the front tibia armed with three 

 sharp teeth, the middle tibia rather slender, the hind tibia dilating 

 regularly from base to extremity, where it is very broad ; tarsi 

 moderately slender, with all the claws simple, slender and very 

 unequal. Labrum strongly serrated on each side of its posterior 

 part and produced anteriorly into a very smooth, flat and broad 

 process, dilated at the base and before the extremity and without 



