ADOEETUS. 305 



puuctulatioii betwet-a them, at least on the disc ; from the latter 

 arise the white or greyish-white scale-hke hairs; the epipleurse 

 are nanw and rather short. The pygidium is broad and ratlier 

 convex, with scattered punctures and sparse short hairs. Le'^s 

 rather strong; front legs with three sharp teeth, middle and liind 

 tibiae with two sharp transverse spinose carinae. 



Length, 11-12 mm. ; breadth, 5-0-5 mm. 



Bombay: Ivhandala, 6,000 ft. (Oct.) ; Centeal India : Nagpur." 



Ty2M in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This species appears to me to be very closely related to 

 A. nephriticus Ohaus, although put by Ohaus in a different sub- 

 genus. 



320. Adoretus minutus. 



Adoretus minutus, Brenske,* Ami. Soc. Ent. Bel<^ xxxvii 1<"<!).3 

 p. 140. " ' - ' 



Dark chestnut-red, with the head (except the clypeus) and 

 pronotum a shade darker, and the antennjB and legs paler. It is 

 shining and clothed evenly and moderately denselv with very line 

 greyish hairs, which lie fairly clo.^e. 



It is elongate and narrow, the elytra slightly dilating towards 

 the extremity. The head is relatively large, with strong, coarse 

 and moderately close punctures, and very shining; the clypeus large 

 and semicircular, and the eyes large and prominent. The pro- 

 notum is short, coarsely and rather closely punctured, with the 

 sides gently rounded, the front angles not sharp and the hind 

 angles completely rounded off. The scutellum and elytra are 

 closely punctured, the costae upon the latter not conspicuous ; 

 the apical calli are not distinctly elevated. The pygidium is 

 shining, rather thinly and linely 'punctured, and clothed with 

 moderately long outstanding grey hairs. The antennae are 9- 

 jonited and slender, the scape moderately long, the second joint 

 large and elongate, the third about as long as the two succeeding, 

 the sixth extremely small. The front tibia is moderately long 

 and armed with three sharp, olilique, rather short teeth, which 

 are somewhat remote, nearlv equidistant, and the two uppermost 

 separated by an acute notch ; the upper part of the tibia is 

 minutely, not closely, serrated; the longer claw of the hind, 

 as well as the front and middle feet, is cleft. 



6 . The longer claws of the front and middle feet are rather 

 deeply cleft, and the lower division dilated. 



I have not seen the $ , and only the <S type specimen. 



Length, 8-5 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Bengal : Tetara. 



Tgpe in Capt. Moser's collection. 



321. Adoretus limbatus. (Plate I, fig. 11.) 



Adoretus limhatus, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mas. Paris 1851 

 (1850), p. 233 ; Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 49].' 



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