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6 . The pygidiiim is very convex and incurved at the extremity. 



5 . The pygidium is not incurved and scarcely convex. 



Length, 10-11 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



Bengal : Tetara, Kunbir ; Madras : Malabar (Audrevves 

 Collection). 



Ti/2)e in Capt. Moser's collection ; co-type lu the Brussels 

 Museum. 



346. Adoretus epipleuralis. (Plate V, fig. 22.) 



Adoretus ejjipleuralis, Arrow, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, l'J14, 



p. 601. 

 Adoretus saif/onensis, Ohaiis, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 479, 



tig. ] 1 (new syn.). 



Pale yellow, with the head and tarsi red, and the vertex nearly 

 black ; thinly clothed with minute, sparse, erect setse, which are 

 very inconspicuous. The pygidium is clothed with rather long 

 erect hairs. 



It is short, broad and rather convex, and the surface is shining. 

 The head is finely rugose, and the clypeus broad, with its margin 

 regularly rounded and strongly elevated. The pronotum is 

 strongly but not closely punctured, rather short, with the sides 

 straight in front, the front angles acutely produced and the hind 

 angles completely rounded olf. The scutellum and elytra are 

 also strongly but not closely punctured ; the costse of the latter 

 are moderately distinct, and the epipleurfe are continued almost 

 to the extremities, being narrow in the middle but conspicuously 

 dilating behind, where they are smooth and opaque. A sharp 

 continuous carina extends along each side of the abdomen, and the 

 posterior margin of the propygidium is also sharply elevated and 

 united to the lateral carinse by a short ridge which cuts off the last 

 spiracle on each side. The continuous carina so formed coincides 

 exactly with the outer edges of the elytra. The legs are rather 

 long and slender, the front tibia armed with three rather long teeth, 

 which occupy more than half its length ; the longer claw is rather 

 deeply cleft in the front and middle feet, and the shorter one of 

 the hind foot is more than half the length of the other. The 

 antennio are 10-jointed, the third to seventh joints regularly 

 diminishing. 



c? . The clypeus is shorter than that of the female, and the 

 pygidium is large and convex. 



2 . The pygidium is short and flat. 



Length, 10-5-1 1*5 mm. ; breadth, 5*5-6 mm. 



Burma : Tharrawaddy, Taung-ngu {G. Q. Corbett) ; Cambodia : 

 Vientiane {E. Vitalis de Salvaza) : Coohin-China : Saigon. 



Type in the British Museum ; that of A. saigonensis in 

 Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



A. epipleuralis is very closely related to A. renardi, Brenske, 

 but the clypeus is shorter and broader, the hind angles of the 

 pronotum are completely rounded off, and the clothing of the 

 upper surface is more scanty, being so thin that a smooth 

 shining appearance is produced. 



