304 RI'TELIN.I, 



The body is nither long aud narrow, the head narrow and the 

 eyes not large. The clypeus is irregularly semicircular, with the 

 margin well reflexed, the sides parallel, slightly 

 contracted at the base, the front margin a 

 little depressed in the middle and gently lobed 

 on each side. The pronotum is strongly and 

 coarsely punctured, the front angles nearly 

 right angles aud the hind angles rounded 

 away. The scutellum is finely rugose, aud 

 the elytra are strongly and distinctly punc- 

 tured, with narrow, rather indistinct costae. 

 The pygidiuiu is finely rugose and closely 

 setose, except at the extremity. The setae 

 'Pig.Ql.—AdoretuR ^^^ erect at the end, but there is no hair- 

 lobiceps. tuft. The legs are rather slender, the front 



tibia armed with three strong teeth equi- 

 distant from oue another ; the longer claw is very minutely cleft 

 on the front and middle feet, and on the hind foot the shorter 

 claw is more than half tlie length of the longer. The antennae 

 are 10-jointed, not long, and joints 3-6 are of nearly equal 

 length. 



The sexes are similar, but the abdomen of the male is well 

 arched and that of the female very convex. 

 Lewjth, 11-5-13 mm. ; breadth, 5-5-6 mm. 

 Bombay: Surat {H. Maxwell Lt-froy); Central Provinces: 

 Jabalpur Distr. (Ind. Mus.), Nagpur {E. A. D'Ahreu, June). 

 Type in the British Museum. 

 Mr. D'Abi-eu took this upon rose-trees. 



319. Adoretus excisns. 



Adoretus excisus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 486, fig. 19. 



S. "Elongate-oval, rather strongly convex, light red-brown 

 and moderately shining. Head and thorax with slight metallic 

 lustre, clothed with short scattered hairs. Clypeus of the c? semi- 

 circular, with a strougly reflexed black margin, which is almost 

 semicircularly emarginate in front ; the upper surface, as well as 

 the forehead aud vertex, rather closely aud conflueutly punctured, 

 the sculi)ture concealed by the greyish-white decumbent hairs; 

 a transverse bare area upon the vertex behind. Thorax only a 

 little more than twice as broad as long, with its hind margin 

 almost straight, its front margin prominent in the middle, the sides 

 dilated behind the middle, the blunt hind angles slightly rounded, 

 aud the rectangular front angles a little produced ; the upper sur- 

 face strongly and often conflueutly punctured, clothed with short 

 and rather scanty greyish-white hairs, with a bare spot in the 

 middle. Upon the elytra the costae are only elevated in freshly 

 emerged specimens, but the primary double rows of punctures are 

 regular and the punctures in the intervals mostly arranged in 

 rows, with quite fine transverse wrinkles aud microscopically fine 



