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pygidium is granulated and clothed rather thinly with short hair. 

 The lower surface is thinly setose. A sharp carina coinciding 

 with the external margins of the elytra extends along each side of 

 the abdomen, being continued, by means of a short ridge which 

 cuts off the last spiracle on each side, with the hinder margin of 

 the propygidium, which is also sharply carinate. The legs are 

 rather slender, the front tibia armed with three strong teeth, 

 which occupy more than half its length. The antenna is 10- 

 jointed, joints three to seven progressively diminishing in length. 



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

 but moderately deeply cleft, and the shorter hind claw about half 

 the length of the longer. 



I have not seen a female. 



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



BuEMA : Victoria Point, Tenasserim {E. T. AtJdnson, Aug.), 



Type in the British Museum. 



This much resembles A. epiphuralis, Arrow, but is rather more 

 closely punctured and setose, and therefore less shining. It is 

 narrower and more convex than A. renardi, Brenske, and the hind 

 angles of the prothorax are completely rounded off. 



349. Adoretus vulpeculus, sp. nov. 



Tawny-red, with the head aud pronotum rather darker, and the 

 femora and tibiae a little paler. 



The body is rather broadly oval and moderately convex, with a 

 rather large head, and closely clothed above and beneath with 

 longish and not very close-lying grey hair, the head having many, 

 and the pronotum and elytra very few, long erect hairs. The 

 clypeus is semicircular, shining and granulated (not very closely). 

 The forehead and pronotum are strongly, closely and evenly 

 punctured ; the sides of the latter are nearly straight in front, 

 with the front angles obtuse and rounded behind, and the hind 

 angles almost rounded off. The scutellum is strongly punctured, 

 and the elytra coarsely and confluently, the costje being almost 

 obsolete ; the epipleurae are broad and almost reach the apex, but 

 gradually narrow from the shoulder to the extremity. The 

 pygidium is clothed with long dense outstanding hair. A sharp 

 carina extends along each side of the abdomen and is united by a 

 short ridge cutting off the last spiracle on each side to the pos- 

 terior edge of the propygidium, which is sharply elevated. The 

 continuous carina so formed coincides with the outer edges of the 

 elytra. The front tibia is armed with three acute nearly equi- 

 distant teeth, and the longer cla^^•s of the front and middle feet 

 are very slightly cleft at the apex. 



c? unknown. 



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



Akdaman Islands {K. T. Atkinson). 



Tijpe in the British Museum. 



