ADORETUS. 323 



6 . The clypeus is smaller and the eyes are more prominent than 

 in the female. The abdomen is much contracted and hollowed, 

 the ventral tubercles are sharply pointed, and that of the 

 penultimate segment is large and prominent. 



2 . The abdomen is convex, the ventral tubercles are broader 

 and not sharply pointed, and that of the penultimate segment is 

 almost absent. 



Length, 8-5-9 mm. ; breadth, 4-5-5 mm. 



Ceylon : Anuradhapura, low country (Oct., Indian Museum). 



Type in the British Museum; ""co- types in the Indian 

 Museum, 



This species is quite peculiar, owing to the row of curious 

 swellings at the middle of the second, third, fourth and fifth 

 ventral segments. 



343. Adoretus corpulentus. (Plate V, ^:g. 46.) 



Adoretus corpulentus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 593. 



Pale yellow, with the clypeus and tarsi alone reddish. 



Very short and stout, with the surface shining, and bearing 

 only very sparse minute setae. The head is large, the eyes rather 

 small, the clypeus semicircular and, like the forehead," sparingly 

 granulated, and the vertex smooth in the middle. The pro- 

 notum is sparingly punctured, the front angles are nearly right 

 angles, and the hind angles completely rounded off. The elytra 

 are rather finely but not densely punctured, with distinct double 

 lines of punctures, not forming costae. The front tibia is armed 

 with three acute teeth, the uppermost placed about the middle, 

 nearer to the second than that is to the first, and separated 

 from it by an acute notch ; the longer claws of the front and 

 middle feet are cleft, and the shorter claw of the hind foot more 

 than half as long as the larger one. The antennte are 10-jointed, 

 joints 3-7 progressively diminishing in length. 



6 . The pygidium is very convex and rather thickly clothed 

 with erect hair. 



$ . The pygidium is flat and scarcely pubescent. 



Length, 8-5-10 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



Cetlox : Trincoinali {E. E. Green, Sept.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species has a very close resemblance to A. celogaster, but 

 the remarkable abdominal processes which form the most dis- 

 tinctive feature of that insect are entirely absent from this. It is 

 also rather more short and rotund, and still paler in colour, and 

 the elytra are smoother, with finer punctures. 



344. Adoretus tener. 



Adoretus tener, Arrow, Ann. Ma"-. Nat. Hist. (S) xiii IQU 

 p. 600. ^ ' ' ' ' 



Pale yellow, shining,^ and thinly clothed with minute whitish 



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