348 eutelinjE. 



siitural stripe upon the elyti-a, a little dilated round the scutellum, 

 very dark brown or black ; the clypeus, the extremities of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi are dark red. 



It is elongate-oval in shape and moderately convex, with a 

 rather dense clothing of uniform decumbent setae. The head is 

 not very large, finely and densely granular, with the eyes rather 

 far apart and the clypeus broadly rounded. The pronotum is 

 very finely and densely punctured, with the sides strongly 

 rounded, the front angles nearly right angles and the hind angles 

 very obtuse. The scutellum is finely and densely punctured, and 

 the elytra strongly and confluently, with scarcely perceptible 

 costse. The pygidium is finely punctured and clothed with erect, 

 not very long, hairs. The legs are rather slender, the front tibise 

 armed with three sharp teeth, the uppermost one a little neai-er 

 to the second than that is to the first ; the longer front and 

 middle claws are bluntly toothed at the base and minutely cleft at 

 the tip, and the shorter hind claw is very strongly curved and less 

 than half the length of the other. 



cJ . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is very 

 deeply notched a little beyond the base and very minutely cleft 

 at the tip. 



Length, 8'5-9"5 mm.; breadth, 4-4*5 mm. 



Centkal Pkovinces: Nagpur, 1000 ft. {E. A .D'Ahreu, June) ; 

 Bombay: Surat (//. Maxvell Lefroy, July), Belgaum (^11. E. 

 Andrewes). 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This species very closely resembles A. suturalis, Arrow, but the 

 pronotum is more densely punctured and the head oF the male is 

 scarcely different from that of the female. 



381. Adoretus suturalis. (Plate lY, fig?. 28 & 29.) 



Adoretus suturalis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Ili.st. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 592. 



Bright yellow, with the elytral suture, and usually also the fore- 

 head and the middle of the pronotum, black or dark brown, the 

 sutural line broad and dilated around the scutellum. The dark 

 patches ot" the head and thorax are sometimes divided into two 

 collateral masses. 



It is elongate-oval, moderately convex, strongly but not densely 

 punctured, somewhat shining, and moderately densely clothed \\'ith 

 fine grey setae, not closel}'^ decumbent. The clypeus and forehead 

 are coarsely gi*anulated, the pronotum deeply but not densely 

 punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the front angles 

 nearly right angles, and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra 

 are strongly punctured, witii the costa3 indistinct and the epi- 

 pleurse not developed. The pygidium is clothed upon its apical 

 part with long erect hair. The front tibia bears three sharp 

 teeth, the uppermost rather nearer to the second than that is to 

 the first ; the longer claw is minutely cleft on the front and middle 



