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  Mr. 
  G. 
  J. 
  Arrow 
  on 
  the 
  Ceylonese 
  

  

  and 
  differs 
  from 
  that 
  and 
  most 
  other 
  Adoreti 
  in 
  the 
  rugose 
  

   elytra, 
  the 
  usual 
  paired 
  rovvs 
  of 
  punctures 
  and 
  close-set 
  

   interstitial 
  puncturation 
  being 
  quite 
  absent. 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  feminalis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Brunneus, 
  prothoracis 
  lateribus 
  elytrorurnque 
  lateribus 
  vel 
  superficie 
  

   tota 
  fiavescentibus 
  ; 
  sat 
  breviter 
  ovatus, 
  crebre 
  et 
  minute 
  punc- 
  

   tatus, 
  undique 
  regulariter 
  sat 
  dense 
  setosus. 
  

  

  Long. 
  9*5-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  lat. 
  5'5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Ceylon 
  : 
  Kandy 
  [Gilhs, 
  1905) 
  ; 
  Peradeniya 
  [E. 
  E. 
  

   Green, 
  Nov. 
  1910) 
  ; 
  Colombo 
  {Green, 
  March 
  190G). 
  

  

  Brown, 
  with 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  or 
  

   tlie 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  paler. 
  It 
  is 
  rather 
  short 
  and 
  ovate 
  

   and 
  entirely 
  clothed 
  with 
  moderately 
  dense, 
  short, 
  uniform 
  

   greyish 
  seta^. 
  The 
  clypeus 
  is 
  semicircular 
  and 
  granulated, 
  

   tlie 
  forehead 
  is 
  strongly 
  and 
  rather 
  rugosely 
  punctured, 
  and 
  

   tlie 
  pronotum 
  is 
  short, 
  moderately 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  punc- 
  

   tured, 
  with 
  the 
  front 
  angles 
  right 
  angles 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  angles 
  

   rounded 
  off. 
  The 
  scutellum 
  and 
  elytra 
  are 
  closely 
  and 
  

   distinctly 
  punctured, 
  the 
  costai 
  upon 
  the 
  latter 
  are 
  narrow 
  

   and 
  distinct 
  and 
  the 
  epi 
  pleurae 
  are 
  not 
  continued 
  behind. 
  

   The 
  pygidium 
  is 
  shallowly 
  pitted 
  or 
  punctured 
  and 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  seta3, 
  which 
  are 
  erect 
  only 
  at 
  the 
  ajncal 
  part. 
  The 
  sides 
  

   'of 
  the 
  metasternum 
  are 
  strongly 
  punctured. 
  The 
  front 
  tibia 
  

   is 
  armed 
  with 
  three 
  acute 
  equidistant 
  teeth, 
  the 
  longer 
  claw 
  

   of 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  middle 
  feet 
  is 
  cleft, 
  and 
  the 
  shorter 
  claw 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  foot 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  lengtli 
  of 
  the 
  other. 
  The 
  

   antennae 
  consist 
  of 
  ten 
  joints, 
  the 
  third 
  to 
  the 
  sixth 
  pro- 
  

   gressively 
  diminishing 
  in 
  size. 
  

  

  (J 
  . 
  The 
  clypeus 
  is 
  rather 
  small, 
  and 
  the 
  longer 
  front 
  claw 
  

   is 
  very 
  minutely 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  infans, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Pallida 
  testaceus, 
  capite, 
  pronoto 
  tarsisque 
  rufescentibus 
  : 
  elonga- 
  

   tus, 
  modice 
  convexus, 
  undique 
  sat 
  crebre 
  grLseo-setosus, 
  satis 
  

   tenuis, 
  baud 
  brevibus, 
  decumbentibus, 
  uonnullis 
  longioribus 
  

   erectis 
  intarspersis 
  ; 
  corpora 
  supra 
  fortiter 
  sat 
  crebre 
  punctato, 
  

   clypeo 
  semicirculari, 
  granulato. 
  

  

  Long. 
  8"5-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  lat. 
  4-4-5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ceylon 
  : 
  Eppawela 
  (North 
  Central 
  Prov., 
  E. 
  E. 
  

   Green, 
  Sept. 
  1905). 
  

  

  Pale 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  the 
  head, 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  tarsi 
  

   reddish, 
  strongly 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured 
  above, 
  and 
  thickly 
  

  

  