356 BDTELIN.E. 



anteunse are 10-jointed. The front tibia is armed with three- 

 sharp equidistant teeth ; all the tarsi are rather slender, and the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



The two sexes are almost alike, except in the short pygidium. 

 and convex abdomen of the female. 



Length, 10*5-ll-5 mm.; breadth, 5-5 mm. 



Punjab: Kangra Valley, 4500 ft, {G. C. Dudgeon, July); 

 SiKKiM : Mungphu (E. T. uitJcinson) ; BENGAL: Sarda {F. W. 

 Cliampion); BOMBAY: Belgaum (//. E. Andrewes), Bandra (Dr. 

 Jaydlar); Madras: Nilgiri Hills, 3500 ft. (//. L. Aadreives^ 

 April) ; Burma : Rangoon (according to Ohaus). 



The last locality requires confiriuation. 



Type in the Halle Museum. 



Sometimes (probably only in very fresh specimens) the elytral 

 striae are marked by fine bare lines dividing the pubescence, as 

 described in his A. midostriaius by Ohaus, but these lines are 

 evidently easily obliterated. That this is not a distinct form is 

 shown by Ohaus' figure of the aedeagus, which is identical with 

 that of Burineister's type, which I have examined. 



Species of uncertain position. 



391. Adoretus brachypygus. 



Adoretiis brachypygus, Burm., Haudb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 5-30. 



" Testaceous, shining, slightly pubescent, with the vertex dark, 

 the clypeus parabolically elongate. Pygidium of tlie $ short, 

 the ventral part tumid. Length, 5 1. 



Porm and colouring as in A. ccdiginosus, but more shining, 

 because the puucturation is lighter and the hairy clothing much 

 sparser. Clypeus elongate parabolic. Vertex dark red-brown. 

 Pronotum very pale reddish-yellow, very sj^aringly pubescent. 

 Elytra Avith the usual slight costse. Pygidium extremely short, 

 but the last abdominal segment strongly convex, bent u^jwards. 

 Front tibia m ith three strong teeth and some slight serrations 

 above them." 



India. Collected by Major Boys. Received from Mr. Melly. 

 Type in the Halle Museum. 



Burmeister evidently did not know the male of this, and the 

 name he has given it describes a constant feature of female Adoreti. 

 Dr. Prey-Gessner, Avho is in charge of the Melly Collection at 

 Geneva, has kindly sent me a male specimen supposed to be a 

 co-type. Probably it was taken by Boys together with the type- 

 specimen, but was retained by Melly and the female sent to 

 Burmeister, who placed it in the Halle collection. There are 

 also two males taken by Major Beys in the Hope Collection at 

 Oxford, which agree in most respects with the female type, but 

 belong to a different species from the Geneva specimen. It is 

 theiefore doubtful which is Burmeister's species. 



