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induta, thoracis vittiila elytroruiiique plagis sexnigris. — Var. A, Elytris 

 totis nigris. — Long. 2] liu. 



Elongate, subcyliudrical, pale fulvo-fuscous, whole body clothed with 

 suberect coucolorous hairs ; a short \atta on the disc of the thorax, 

 together -with three patches on each elytron, black. Head shining, 

 remotely punctured, surface sparingly covered with hairs; clypeus 

 transverse, separated from the face by a deep gToove which runs across 

 between the insertion of the antennae ; jaws pitchy-black ; antennae 

 nearly equal to the body in length, slender, third joint two-thirds the 

 length of the fourth. Thorax slightly broader across the middle than 

 long, subcylindi-ical, slightly flattened above, lateral border obsolete ; 

 sides rounded, sinuate behind the middle, posterior angles produced 

 into an obtuse tooth; surface covered with large deep punctures. 

 Scutellum trigonate, the sides slightly excavated, its apex truncate. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax ; sides parallel ; apex regidarly rounded ; 

 above convex, each elytron impressed with eleven rows of deep punc- 

 tures, the first abbreviated, outer stria? indistinctly sulcate ; interspaces 

 smooth and shining; two parallel patches placed inmiediately below 

 the base, the first within the shoulder, narrowly oblong, the second on 

 the outer margin, still nan'ower and elongate, and a large siibovate 

 patch situated behind the middle, shining black. Beneath shining, 

 more sparingly clothed with fine pubescence. 



Var. A. Elytra entii-ely black. 



Mab. Northern India. 



Genus Adoxus, Kirby. 



The Rev. W. Kirby, in his work on the North American Coleoptera, 

 has formed a genus for the reception of the non-metallic, haii'y species 

 of Eumoljnis, taking for Ms t}^e American representatives of our 

 European Eumolpus vitis ; I have therefore retained his name, in pre- 

 ference to the commonly used but more recent one of Bromius*. 



Adoxus Bowringii. 



A. ovatus, valde convexus, nuceus, pilis adpressis obscm*e fiil\'is indutus, 

 thoracis plaga obtrigonata, elytrormn maculis 7, metacoxis pleurarumque 

 plaga nigris. — Var. A. Thoracis plaga elj'trorumque macidis nonnullis 

 obsoletis. — Long. 2|— 3 lin. 



Ovate, very convex, nuceous, body covered with obscm'e fulvous ad- 

 pressed hairs ; an obtrigonate patch in the centre of the thorax, seven 

 spots on the elytra, a patch at the apex of each plem'a, and the meta- 

 coxse shining black. Head distinctly punctured ; ch'peus triangidar, 

 separated from the face by an acutely angled grooved line ; on either 

 side, just above the insertion of the anteunfe, is a slightly raised smooth 

 tubercle ; eyes black. Thorax subglobose above, covered with fulvous 



* Redteiibacher, Faun. Austr. 1st ed, p. 658 (1849). 



