ADOBETUS. 333 



pronotum aud the legs testaceous yellow. The punctures of the 

 elytra are stained brown, so that the longitudinal costa), which 

 are free from punctures, seem to form pale stripes. 



It is rather elongate, parallel-sided and depressed, smooth and 

 shilling, and thinl_y clothed with very minute grey setae. The 

 head is very large and closely granular, with the eyes wide apart 

 and the clypeus nearly semicircular, but a very little produced in 

 front. The pronotum is deeply and irregularly, but distinctly, 

 punctured, witli the sides rounded, the front angles right angles 

 and the hind angles very obtuse. The scutellum is finely and 

 rugosely punctured, and the elytra are finel}^ deeply and rather 

 closely, but not rugosely, punctured, with well-marked narrow 

 costje : the epipleurae are short, and the sutural angle is slightly 

 rounded. Tlie pygidium is short in both sexes and clothed with 

 erect but not long hairs. There is a continuous sharp carina 

 extending along each side of the abdomen and coinciding with the 

 edges of the elytra. The posterior edge of the propygidium is 

 also sharply elevated and united with the lateral carinse by a short 

 ridge which cuts ofi' the last spiracle on each side. The legs are 

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

 uppermost farther from the second than that is from the first, 

 the hind tibia not inflated, tlie longer claw minutely cleft on the 

 front and middle feet, and the shorter claw of the hind foot more 

 than half the length of the longer. The antenna is 10-jointed, 

 joints 5-7 very small. 



cJ . The teeth of the front tibia are very sharp, the margin of 

 the clypeus strongly reflexed, especially in the middle, and the 

 eyes more prominent than in the female. 



Length, 11 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



Madras: Nandidrug {T. V. Camphell); Bombay: Belgaum 

 (H. E. Andrewes), Poona, Manjiri (July); Bengal: Pusa (T. 

 Bainbrigge Fletcher, June). 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



358. Adoretus nitidus. (Plate V, fig. 26.) 



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

 p. 599. 



Pale yellow, with the tarsi and clypeus red, and the vertex of the 

 head nearly black ; very thinly clothed with minute greyish setae. 



Very long and cylindrical, with the head not very wide, the 

 clypeus relatively moderately large, semicircular, with strongly 

 reflexed margin. The head is transversely rugulose, the clypeus 

 rather laxly. The pronotum is coarsely but very scantily 

 punctured (a little more closely at the sides), with the lateral 

 margins strongly rounded, the front angles acute and the hind 

 angles completely rounded away. The scutellum is sparingly 

 punctured, and the elytra moderately strongly and closely, with 

 not very well-marked costac. The pygidium is finely coriaceous 



