ADOBETUS. 339 



366. Adoretus sorex, sp, nov. (Plate V, fig. 29.) 

 Chocolate-red, with the femora and tibi* pale yellow. 

 Eather narrow and moderately convex in form, clothed some- 

 what closely with not very short or regularly disposed hairs 

 intermixed with rather longer erect ones upon the elytra, those 

 on the pygidium long and erect. The clypeus is broadly rounded 

 and, like the forehead, densely and finely rugose. The pronotum 

 is closely but not very finely" punctured, with the sides rounded, 

 the front angles rather obtuse and the iiind angles rounded. The 

 scutehum is finely punctured, and the elytra closely bub scarcely 

 rugosely, with rather indistinct costse. The legs are moderately 

 slender, the front tibia; armed with three teeth (the uppermost 

 very mmute), the claws very unequal, the longer one minutely 

 cleft on the front and middle feet, the shorter one on the hind 

 foot exceedingly short. 



c?. The eyes are large and prominent, the clypeus small but 

 not very short, and the margin almost straight. 



2 unknown, but ic has probably a larger and more rounded 

 clypeus. 



Leiu/th, 8 mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 



Ceylon-: Horowapotana (C. F. S. Baker, Js^ov.) ; M\deas- 

 Coimbatore (31. J. Walhouse) ; Centhal Pkovinces : Na^nur" 

 1000 ft. (E. A. D'Abreu, June). ^^'^oPur, 



2'i/2:>e in the British Museum. 



367. Adoretus cribratus. (Plate V, fig. 32.) 



Adoretus cribratus, White, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist, xiv 1814 

 p. 4:24. • ' > > 



Adoretus paralklus, Kraatz,* Wien. Eat. Zeit. 1895 p 252 

 (new syu.). ' ^ 



Uniform light brown or red-brown, evenly and closely clothed 

 with minute decumbent setae, with a very few longer hairs near 

 tlie sides and extremities of the elytra. 



The body is elongate, parallel-sided and depressed. The head 

 IS finely, densely and confluently punctured, the eyes very lar^re 

 aud prominent, and the clypeus small and semicircular. The 

 pronotum and scutellum are finely, densely and coniluently 

 punctured, the former very short, with the front angles nearly 

 right angles and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra are 

 rugosely punctured and the coslae indistinct ; the apical extremi- 

 ties are subangular (/. e. only minutely rounded) at the suture 

 The clothing of the pygidium is erect and long upon the lower 

 half. The front tibia is armed with three sharp equidistant teeth 

 the uppermost one minute, the hind tibia is a little contracted at 

 the extremity, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet 

 is cleft. The antenna is 10-joiiited. 



S. The clypeus is smaller thau that of the female. The 

 iintenna is rather long, the club nearly as long as the foot-stalk 

 The front tibia is rather long and the teeth are rather feeble! 



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