ADORETUS. 331 



Elongate, rather parallel-sided and not very convex, rather 

 closely clothed with fine grey hairs, with longer erect scattered 

 hairs at intervals. The head is finely and closely rugose, wilh the 

 clypeus rather small and its front margin (in the male) gently 

 excised in the middle. The pronotum is short, finely, closely and 

 evenly punctured, with its sides gently rounded, the front angles 

 slightly and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra are closely 

 and rather confluently punctured, with distinct narrow cost®. 

 The pygidium is rather closely clothed witli moderately long erect 

 hairs, A sharp carina extends along each side of the abdomen, and 

 the posterior margin of the propygidium is also sharply elevated 

 and united to the abdominal caringe by a short ridge on each side, 

 in which the last spiracle is placed. The legs are slender, the 

 front tibia armed with three sharp, nearly equidistant teeth, the 

 longer front and middle claws extremely "minutely cleft, and the 

 shorter hind claw very small (about a quarter of the length of 

 the longer). 



The female (which I have not seen) has the clypeus semicircular, 

 according to Ohuus. 



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



Madras: JN^ilgiri Hills {Sir G. P. Bampson), Shevaroy Hills, 

 Yercaud (T. B. Fletcher, April, May), Pondicherry, Trichinopoli, 

 Shembaganur, Kodaikanal. 



Typ6 in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This is nearly related to A. ecccisus,0\\.{\\h.\c\x I have not seen), 

 but is smaller, and the punctures and hairs are evidently much 

 closer and more numerous. There is no bare spot in the'middle 

 of the pronotum, which has no metallic lustre, and the hairs of 

 the elytra are not at all scale-like, nor those of the pygidium 

 lew and short. The male is readily recognizable by the slight 

 sinuatiou of the front margin of the clypeus. 



355. Adoretus affinis, sp. nov. (Plate IV, fig. 27.) 



Keddish brown, with the femora and tibiae and the sides of the 

 pronotum and elytra testaceous, the pale colour upon the upper 

 surface merging imperceptibly into the darker shade. 



It is elongate-oval in shape, convex, and rather closely clothed 

 with very fine uniform pale setae. The clypeus is very short, 

 broad, regularly rounded and moderately closely granulated ; the 

 forehead rugose and the vertex closely punctured. The pronotum 

 is strongly and densely, but not rugosely, punctured, with the 

 sides rounded, the front angles obtuse and the hind angles 

 rounded. The scutellum is closely punctured, and the elytra 

 closely and rather coarsely, but not rugosely, with faintlv developed 

 costae and with distinct but not wide or opaque epiplenrte. There 

 is a sharply-defined carina extending along each side of the 

 abdomen and united by a short ridge, which cuts off' the last 

 spiracle on each side, to the hind margin of the propygidium, 

 which is also sharply elevated. The continuous carina so formed 



