326 RUTELIN^. 



347. Adoretus ariel, sp. nov. (Plate V, tig. 23.) 



Pale testaceous, with the head, an indefinite patch on each side 

 o£ the pronotum, the tarsi and the abdomen beneath red-brown. 



It is elongate, parallel-sided and not very convex, closely and 

 uniformly clothed all over with short grey setse. The head 

 is large, densely and continently punctured, with the clypeus 

 closely granulated, very broadly rounded and short. The pro- 

 notum is strongly, very closely and evenly punctured, with 

 its sides straight in front, the front angles right angles and the 

 hind angles completely rounded off. The elytra are sliglitly 

 shining, distinctly but contiuently punctured, with the dorsal 

 costse indistinct and the epipleurae well-marked, continued almost 

 to the end of the elj^tra, bat not perceptibly dilated behind ; the 

 apical angles are not sharp. The pygidiuin is leathery in texture 

 and thinly clothed with erect hairs, rather longer and more 

 numerous near the apex. A sharp continuous carina extends 

 along each side of the abdomen, and the posterior edge of the 

 ])ropygidium is also shar|)ly elevated and united to the lateral 

 carinse by a short ridge which cuts off the last spiracle on eaoh 

 side. The continuous carina so formed coincides exactly with 

 the external margins of the elytra. The antennae are 10-jointed, 

 with joints 3-6 subequal. The front tibia is armed with three 

 sharp equidistant teeth, the hind tibise broad, the tarsi slender, 

 the claws not very long, the longer one cleft on the four anterior 

 feet, the shorter hind claw more than half the length of the 

 longer. 



c? . The longer front and middle claws are rather deeply cleft 

 at the apex. 



I have not seen a female. 



Length, 9*5 mm.; breadth, 4*75 ram. 



Assam ( W. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is narrower and more elongate than tlie allied 

 forms with continuous elytral epipleura?, which it otherwise 

 closely resembles. 



348. Adoretus victorige, sp. nov. (Plate V, figs, 24 & 2b.) 



Pale yellow, with the head and tarsi red-brown. 



It is rather shortly cylindrical in shape and moderately closely 

 clothed all over with short uniform grey setas, the pygidium alone 

 bearing rather longer, but not thick, erect hairs. The head is 

 large, closely and uniformly rugose, with the clypeus very broadly 

 rounded. The pronotum is evenly and closely, but distinctly, 

 punctured, with the sides straight, the front angles sharply pi'o- 

 duced and the hind angles completely rounded off. The elytra 

 are rather densely but scarcely continently punctured, with very 

 narrow elevated discoidal costae ; the apical angles are sliarp and 

 the epipleurae are continued almost to the apices, dilating con- 

 siderably behind, where they are smooth and opaque. The 



