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of the longer one. The antennae are 10-jointed, joints 4-6 nearly 

 equal in leiigtl). 



<S ■ The teeth of the front tibia are very small. The tufts of 

 the pygidium are very prominent, and there is a well-marked, 

 smooth, denuded area between them and the apex. 



Length, 8-10 mm. ; breadth 3-5-5 mm. 



Bengal: Calcutta (0. E. Preseley, Oct.), Sunderbans {F. W. 

 CliamfAon), Dacca (July); Madras: Berhampur, Cxanjam (£^. 7'. 

 Atkinson) ; Ceylon : Trincomali (E. E. Green, Sept.) ; Niroddu- 

 nninai {E. E. Green, May). 



Type in the Britisli Museuu). 



This species was found upon the bark of a mango tree at 

 Dacca. 



328. Adoretus compressus. 



Meloiontha compressa, Weber, Observ. Eiitom., 1801, p. 72. 

 Adoretus umbrosi(s,^\ix\\\., Haudb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 475 ; Reitt., 



Verb. Nat. Ver. Briinn, xli, 1903, p. m. 

 Lepadoretus compressus, Obaiis, Eut. Blatt. viii, 1912, p. 224. 



Reddish brown, rather deeply clothed with short decumbent 

 scale-like whitish setse, those beneath rather scanty at the middle 

 of the metasternum and abdomen, those of the elytra with longi- 

 tudinal lines of more closely aggregated clusters, between which 

 occur minute bare or partly bare ai'eas. 



It is moderately elongate, and the legs are rather short. The 

 head and pronotum are very densely and finely granulated, and 

 the former is moderately broad, with a large, nearly semicircular 

 clypeus. The pronotum is not very short or flat, its sides are 

 gently rounded, the front angles nearly right angles and the 

 hind angles almost rounded off. Each elytron bears three fairly 

 well-marked dorsal costae and a prominent callus in the apical 

 angle, upon which the setse are closely aggregated ; the intervals 

 are shallowly and confluently pitted. The apical part of the 

 pygidium is bare and opaque and surrounded by a close fringe of 

 long erect hairs. The front tibia bears three similar strong 

 teeth, the uppermost one placed farther from the second than 

 that is from the first ; the claws are not very unequal, and the 

 longer one is cleft at the tip on the front and middle feet. 



S . The inner lobe of the longer front and middle claws is 

 broad and blunt. 



Length, 11 mm.; breadth, 0"5 mm. 



Bengal : Kierpur, Purneah District (C. Paiva, Sept.) ; Bwrma : 

 Papun [Lieut. - G ol. Adamson), Victoria Point (E. T. Atkinson); 

 Tonkin ; Cambodia ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Java ; 

 Borneo ; Mauritius. 



Dr. Ohaus gives Madras and South Ceylon as localities for this 

 species, but it seems likely that A. bicaudatHs, Arr., or another 

 of the closely similar forms may have been mistaken for it. It is 

 an essentially Malayan insect, although its presence in Mauritius 

 indicates its capability of extending its range. If accidentally 



