AD0KETU3. ^"^^ 



feet and the shorter claw of the hind foot is extremely small. 

 The'antenna^ are 10- jointed Joints 3-6 elongate 



^ . The clypeus is narrow and slightly flattened at its front 

 edge, and the eyes are very prominent. 



5 The clypeus is semicircular. 



Ze»i7<7/, 7-5-9 mm. ; breadth, 4-4-5 mm. 



Ceylon: Welhnvaya {E. E. Oreen, Nov. , Diyataawa (2. B 

 Fletcher, Nov.), Kelani Valley, near Colombo (IF. Braxne), 

 Annradhapura (low country, Oct., Indian Museum). 



Type in the British Museum. 



382. Adoretus lasiopygus. (Plate V, fig. 36.) 



Adoretus lasiopynus, Burni.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 2 1855, p. 530. 

 Adoretus eardoni, Brenske,* Ann. Soc. Ent Belg. xxxvn, 1893, 

 p. 141 ; id., lud. Mas. Notes, 1898, pi. xi, fig. 4. 



Dark brown, becoming lighter upon the clypeus, scutellum, 

 sides of the pronotum and elytra, as well as on the pygidium, the 

 lower surface and the legs. It is rather densely clothed with grey 

 decumbent setce, intermixed with a few long erect hairs, and 

 with the pvgidium clothed with rather long erect hairs. 



It is elon^!ite-oval in shape. The clypeus and forehead are 

 densely granuhited, the former semicircular, with the margin 

 strongly reflexed ; the vertex is strongly punctured. The pro- 

 notum "is strongly and moderately closely punctured with the 

 sides strongly rounded, the front angles blunt and the hind angles 

 very obtuse. The scutellum is closely punctured, and the elytra 

 densely and confluently, with the cost^ indistnict. The pygidmm 

 is coriaceous and not distinctly punctured. The antennae are 10- 

 iointed, ioints 3 to 7 regularly diminishing in length. The front 

 tibia is tridentate, the uppermost tooth minute and rather nearer 

 to the second than that is to the first, and the longer claw of the 

 front and middle feet is cleft. . .i r ^ i 



cJ The clypeus is small, the longer claw of the front and 

 middle feet very minutely cleft, and the pygidium large. 



L€ngf7i,9-5-12 mm.; breadth, 5-6 mm. ^ ^ ^^ _, 



United PROVINCES : Allahabad {B. Lord, Aug.); Nepal; Sik- 

 KiM- MvmgphniE.T. Atkinson); Assam : Tej pur, Man gajdai Distr. 

 (S. W. Kemp, Oct.); Bengal: Tetara, Calcutta Khulna (Apr., 

 lud Mus.), Sarda (P. W. Champion), Eanchi (Irvine), Tm^.ahar 

 and'Eaimahal {N. Annandale, July), Pusa (B. M X./m/, July, 

 Auo-) • Madras : Coimbatore, S. Arcot, Madras, Godavery Distr. 

 (TV.Bamah-ishna, Sept.), Bellary Distr. {T. Bainbri^ge Fletclier 

 Sept.), Trichinopoli {du Breuil) ; Ceylon: Annradhapura (i\. 



Annandale, Oct.). . . ^ T\r^„„..'.. 



Type in the Halle Museum ; that of A. cardonim Capt. Mosei s 

 collection Co-tvpe of A. lasiopygus in the Geneva Museum. 



In a southern Vace found in Ceylon and of xyhich I haye seen a 

 series (in the British Museum and M. Bene Oberthurs collection) 



