280 BUTELIJM2. 



Clypeal suture quite fine and straight, head lightly shining, fore- 

 head like the clypeus, vertex quite finely simply punctured. 

 Antennae 10-jointed, with the club almost as long as the foot- 

 stalk. Thorax relatively long, hardly dilated in the middle, finely 

 margined all round, hind angles gently rounded, front angles and 

 middle of the front margin slightly produced, lateral margin 

 setose, upper surface with moderately close annular punctures, 

 each with a very short whitish seta. Elytra with slightly elevated 

 primary costse, the primary rows of punctures and the intervals 

 with annular punctures, which on the disc (not at the sides) are 

 united by fine short transverse rugae; each puncture with a quite 

 short seta ; lateral margin finely and closely crenulated, the 

 epi pleurae extending to the posterior edge of the hind coxae. 

 Pygidium vertical, rather long and acute, flat before the apex, 

 elsewhere rather convex, sparsely punctured, each puncture with 

 a long fine greyish-white hair. Last ventral segment emarginate 

 behind, shorter than the penultimate, all the sternites with a 

 slight marginal edge, sparsely clothed with short whitish hair, like 

 the breast and the coxae, the penultimate one also with a trans- 

 verse row of bristles. Prosternum without a process. Front 

 tibia tridentate, the tarsi relatively long and slender, at least the 

 front ones, the claws very unequal in length, the larger one on 

 the front and middle feet slightly cleft. 



Length, 9*5 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



BOMBAY: Belgaum." 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



302. Prodoretus malabariensis. 



Prodoretus malabariensis, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1912, p. 274. 



" Elongate, almost parallel-sided, moderately convex, pale testa- 

 ceous-yellow, the head blackish brown, not very shining on account 

 of the close and rather long white hair. 



Head small, only appearing large on account of the large and 

 prominent eyes ; clypeus reddish, hardly broader than long, 

 parallel-sided, with the angles slightly rounded, the front margin 

 a little produced and only feebly reflexed, rather closely covered 

 with annular punctures, whose walls are partly lost, so that only 

 transverse elevations remain , in each puncture is an erect whitish 

 seta. The head is similarly sculptured and clothed, the vertex 

 scarcely more sparsely. Thorax slightly convex, hardly dilated 

 in the middle, hind angles bluntly rounded, front angles a little 

 produced, with close ocellate punctures everywhere and in each 

 puncture a whitish seta. Scutellum very closely punctured. The 

 primary costae of the elytra, with the exception of the sutural 

 costa, are scarcely elevated, all the intervals closely punctured, 

 the punctures with white setae. These costae are well marked, 

 however, from the fact that the punctures of the primary rows 

 are rather larger and arranged in regular rows, with the contained 



