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white setae; the apical calliof tlie elytra prominent, their posterior 

 vertical face smooth and shining and darker in colour, and the 

 setae situated immediately before tlie callus on each side aggre- 

 gated into a cluster of about four dense white patches. 



Elongate, rather parallel-sided and depressed. The eyes are 

 large and prominent, the clypeus short, broadly rounded and 

 rather closely granulated, and the forehead densely rugose. The 

 pronotum is short, strongly and densely punctured, with the 

 sides nearly straight in front, rounded behind, the front angles 

 nearlv right angles, and the hind angles very obtuse and scarcely 

 traceable. The scutellum is closely punctured, and the elytra are 

 densely punctured, with tiie costte well-marlved and elevated in 

 front but imperfect behind, the apical calli prominent and a small 

 smooth dark area behind each ; there is also a slight elevation 

 with a surrounding depression upon each elytron near the 

 scutellum. Tiie pygidium is clothed with short erect grey hair. 

 The sides of the abdomen are carinated, and the posterior edge of 

 the propygidium is also sharply carinated but not continuous 

 with the lateral carinse, from which it is divided by the last 

 spiracle on each side. The legs are rather slender, the front 

 tibia armed with three short sharp teeth, the uppermost rather 

 remote from the other two, the hind tibia rather inilated, the 

 longer claw cleft on the front and middle feet, and the shorter 

 hind claw less than half the length of the longer. The antennae 

 are 10-jointed. 



J . The longer front and middle claws are thickened at the 

 end and only very minutely cleft. 



LeiKjtJi, 10 mm. ; breadth, 4-5 mm. 



? Bengal ; Java. 



2\i/2)e in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



A partlv denuded male specimen of this species in M. Eene 

 Oberthiir's collection is labelled " India," but a well-preserved 

 specimen in the British Museum (from the Bowring Collection) is 

 labelled " Java." As Dr. Ohaus has apparently no information 

 as to the exact source of his type-specimen, it seems possible that 

 the species may not be really Indian. There is no ground for 

 doubting the accuracy of the locality Java, whence Bownng 

 received many Coleoptera without more precise data. 



331. Adoretus birmanus. (Plate V, fig. 37.) 



Adorefits birmanus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Mist. (8) xiii, 1914, 



p. 596. 

 Adoretus hirmarius, vdi\J/avescens, Arrow, 1. c. 



Dark brown, with the sides of the pronotum, the sternum, 

 femora and tibiae, and parts of the abdomen yellowish. The 

 elytra are minutely sprinkled with the same colour and the sides 

 generally vaguely paler. It is moderately thickly clothed with 

 decumbent setae* which are rather unevenly disposed upon the 



