ADORETUS. 337 



Type in Dr. Oliaus' collection. 



This is a very abundant species, greatly attracted by liglit. It 

 is easily recognised by the very scanty puucturatiou of the pro- 

 notum, especially in the female. 



363. Adoretus kanarensis, sp. nov. (Plate V, £<?. 27.) 



Bright testaceous yellow, with the head, the pronolum (except 

 the lateral margins), a broad sutural stripe upon the elytra, 

 spreading to the humeral caHus antei-iorly and not quite reaching 

 the margins postei'iorly, the extremities ot the tibise, and all the 

 tarsi, deep reddish-brown. 



It is elongate-oval in shape and rather 



shining, the clothing consisting of minute 



pale setae ratlier thinly scattered, except 



upon the head and pygidium, where they are 



longer and closer. The head is transversely 



rugose, not very large, with the clypeus 



broadly rounded. The pronotum is very 



coarsely but not very closely punctured, 



with the sides rounded, the front angles 



nearly right angles and the hind angles 



obtuse. The seutellum is finely rugose, and 



the elytra are coarsely and confluently 



Fig. 12.—AdoreUis punctured, with well-marked elevated costse. 



kanarensts, (S . rjjjg pygidium has a bare apical area. The 



legs are slender, the front tibia is armed 



\^ith three strong equidistant teeth, the larger claw of the front 



and middle feet is cleft, and the shorter hind claw is more than 



half the length of the longer. The antenna is 10-joiuted, joints 



3-5 progressively diminishing. 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



Bombay : North Kanara. 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only a single male specimen, taken by Mr. T. B,, D. 

 Bell. 



364. Adoretus rugosus. (Plate V, fig. 33.) 



Adoretus rin/osus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 589. 



Dark brown, with the antennae and femoi'a yellow. 



Karrowly elongate and parallel-sided, and moderately closely 

 clothed with rather coarse greyish or yellowish hair, with longer 

 erect hairs interspersed. The pygidium, legs, and lower surface 

 are clothed with rather long upstanding hair. The eyes are 

 exceedingly large and prominent, the clypeus small, semicircular, 

 and granulated, and the forehead and ])ronotum coarsely and 

 closely punctured, the latter with the sides moderately rounded, 

 the front angles nearly right angles and the hind angles obtuse. 

 The elytra are entirely coarsely rugose, without visible punctures 



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