316 



RUTELIN^. 



labrum is studded with rather cora-se tubercles and rounded (not 

 truncate) at the end. 



cT . The hair is erect upon the pygidiuui, and the longer front 

 and middle claws are almost imperceptibly cleft. 



$ . The pronotum is more shining and more sparingly punc- 

 tured, and the hair of the pygidium is decumbent. 



Letujth, 10-11 mm.; breadth, 4-5-5 mm. 



Pu]<fJAB: Taru, Peshawar Distr. {T. B. Fletvhcr, May); W. 

 Bengal: Dinapur (JV, Annandale, July). 



I'ype in the 13ritish Museum. 



334. Adoretus boops. 



Mehlontha hoops, Wied., Germar's Mag. Ent. iv, 1821, p. 135. 

 Adoretus boops, ISurm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 474. 

 Adoretus latifrons, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Eut. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 

 p. 232. ■ 



Tawny yellow, rather closely clothed above and beneatli with 

 uniform decumbent greyish setae. 



It is a large, rather narrow and depressed species, with a very 

 large head and short legs. The clypeus is large and flat, nearly 

 semicircular, but slightly jn-oduced in front, and the foreliead 

 thickly covered with setae. The pronotum is short, densely punc- 

 tured, with the sides very obtusely angulated in the middle, but 

 not distinctly curved, the front angles acute and the hind angles 

 obtuse. The scutellum is well punctured, and the elytra are long 

 and taper slightly from shoulder to apex ; they are closely and 

 confluently punctured, witii narrow moderately distinct costse, 

 and the apical calli are very prominent and tufted. The pygidium 

 has a rather thick tuft of outstanding hair near the apex. The 

 prosternum is strongly elevated behind the front coxae as a nearly 

 vertical finger-like process bearing stiff hairs. The front tibia is 

 armed with three acute but rather small teeth, the middle one 

 nearer to the terminal than to the uppermost one, above which 

 the tibia is slightly serrated, and the longer claw of the front and 

 middle feet is cleft at the tip. 



S . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is exceedingly 

 minutely cleft, and the teeth of the front tibia are more minute 

 than in the female. 



Lengtli, 13*5-16 mm.; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills ; Bengal : Dacca, Chapra (JJdcJitnzie), 

 Pusa (June) ; Madras: Berhampur (E. T. Atkinson). 



Type in the Copenhagen Museum ; that of A. latifrons in the 

 Paris Museum. 



Taken at Pusa on Ber {Zizyphaii jujuha). 



335. Adoretus fraterculus, sp. nov. (Plate V, fig. 17.) 



Eeddish brown, with the elytra, femora and tibiae pale testa- 

 ceous ; moderately closely clothed above with very short decumbent 

 white setiE, with longer erect setse scattered upon the posterior 

 part of the elytra and a tuft upon the apical callus. 



