ADOKETUS. 303 



acute notch. The antennae are 10-jointed and the first to the 

 sixth joints are elongate. The longer claw of the front and 

 middle feet is cleft, and the shorter claw of the hind foot is 

 minute (less than half as long as the longer one). The hind tibia 

 is rather inflated and the hind tarsus rather short and thick. 



I have not seen a female. 



Length, 8-10 mm. ; breadth, 3'5-4'5 ram. 



Burma: Tharrawaddy (6r, Q. Corhett), Teinzo {L. Fea, May), 

 Victoria Point {E. T. Atlinson, Aug.) ; Assam : Sylhet. 



TifjJe in the Halle Museum. 



317. Adoretus seriesetosus, sp. nov. 



Leaden-black in colour, with the legs and lower surface tinged 

 with red, and moderately closely clothed above and beneath with 

 short white setae, of which those upon the elytra are arranged in 

 longitudinal lines. 



It is moderately elongate and depressed in form, and slightly 

 shining. The head is broad, with large and prominent eyes, and 

 the clypeus broadly transverse, ^^•ith the margin strongly elevated 

 and produced into two rounded lobes in the middle ; the wliole 

 surface of the head is sculptured, but not very closely, with trans- 

 verse crescent-shaped impressions. The prouotum is coarsely and 

 not closely punctured, the punctures closer and slightly confluent 

 at the sides ; tlie latter are strongly rounded, the front angles 

 acute and the hind angles almost obsolete. The elytra bear 

 rather deeply impressed pairs of striie, which separate the minute 

 setae into longitudinal lines ; the alternate intervals are rather 

 closely and irregularly pitted. The pygidium is clothed with erect 

 setae, which form a tuft near the base. The antennae are 10- 

 jointed. The front tibia is armed with three sharp teeth, the 

 uppermost rather remote from the others and separated by a very 

 acute notch ; the shorter claw of the hind foot is more than half 

 the length of the longer. 



S . Tlie pygidium is ])ointed and without setae at its apex. 



Lengthy 12-13 mm. ; breadth, 6 6-5 mm. 



SiND : Karachi (T. R. D. Bell). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrewes' 

 collection. 



This species has a remarkably close resemblance to Phceadoretus 

 comptus, Men. (which inhabits the same region) and can only be 

 distinguished from it by close examination. The head is broader 

 and the eyes larger, more prominent and smoother ; the entire 

 sculpture and clothing are extremely similar, but the sides of the 

 pronotum are a little less rugose; in the male, the pygidium is 

 more pointed and smoother at the end. 



318. Adoretus lobiceps, sp. nov. 



Uniform chocolate -brown, rather shining, with a fine, not very 

 close clothing of minute short decumbent seta?, which are longer 

 and closer upon the pygidium and lower surface. 



