318 RUTELIN.^i. 



and opaijue, clothed with setose scales in the anterior part 

 and with erect hairs towards the apex. A sharp continuous 

 carina extends along each side of the abdomen, and the pos- 

 terior edge of the propygidium is also sharply elevated and 

 iniited to the lateral carinse by a short ridge which cuts off the 

 last spiracle on each side. The continuous abdominal carina 

 thus formed exactly coincides with the outer edges of the elytra. 

 The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with three very short 

 teeth placed close together, especially the two terminal ones, and 

 ihe upper part finel)^ serrated ; the tarsi rather short, the claws 

 rather unequal, and the longer front and middle claws minutely 

 cleft. The labrum is sharply toothed at the sides and the process 

 is very narrow. 



2 unknown. 



Length, 14-15 mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. 



Bengal : 8underbans (tSnbramania Ayyar, Oct.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; co-type in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



Eound damaging sundri trees {Heritiera Uttoralis). 



337, Adoretus costopilosus. (Plate IV, figs. 30, 31 & 32.) 



Adoretus costopilosus, Oliaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 506, 

 fig. 42. 



Dark brown, with the antennae, femora and tibia? generally' a 

 little paler, and with the surface above and beneath moderately 

 closely clothed with short decumbent white setae, but the primary 

 costse of the elytra smooth and bearing eacli a double series of 

 larger and sparser setfe. The sutural costa bears only a single 

 series of similar sets'. 



It is rather elongate, parallel-sided and depressed, and the 

 whole upper surface ]s sometimes shining and sometimes rendt red 

 semi-opaque by a dense microscopic puncturation. The head is 

 broad, with the clypei;s broadly rounded and rugose, and the 

 forehead and vertex coarsely and confluently punctured. The 

 pronotum is more coarsely punctured, with the sides and a 

 median area rugose ; the lateral margins are straight in front, 

 the front angles right angles and the hind angles very obtuse. 

 The elytra are coarsely and confluently punctured, with the 

 sutural costa bordered by a deep groove, the discoidal costae 

 indistinct in front but well marked behind, and tlie apical calli 

 very prominent and bearing tufts of rather long erect setae. 

 The pvgidium is clothed at the end with not Aery long erect 

 hairs. The front tibia is armed with three small teeth, the 

 uppermost one rather more remote from the second than that 

 is from the first, and above the teeth the outer edge is minutely 

 serrated ; the hind tibia is short and inflated, the longer claw 

 of the front and middle feet is cleft, and the shorter claw of 

 the hind foot is more than half the length of the longer one. 

 The antenna is 10-jointed. 



(5 . The eves are larger than those of the female, the clypeus 

 rather smaller, the pronotum more rugosely punctured, and the 



