284 BUTBLINJE. 



It is moderately elongate in shape, and clothed above and 

 beneath with rather coarse white setae. The 

 head is rugosely punctured, with the clypeus 

 rather smooth, shining and almost without 

 setae. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, 

 strongly rounded at the sides, with the front 

 angles acute and the hind angles rounded off. 

 The elytra are coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured, with moderately well-marked costae. 

 The pygidium is finely coriaceous and clothed 

 with uniform, short, erect setae. The teeth 

 of the front tibia are large and sharp. 



c? . The eyes are larger than in the female, 

 the clypeus more deeply notched, and the 

 jv go Sh' pygidium is longer, more exposed and nearly 



doretus rufescws. smooth and bare at the apex. 



Length, 10-10-5 mm.; breadth, 4*5-5 mm. 

 BENGAL : Pusa (June). ' 

 Taken by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher at light. 



Genus PHJEADORETUS. 



Phteadoretus, Reitter, Verb. Nat. Ver. Briinn, xli, 1903, p. 81 j 

 Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1912, p. 268. 



TYPE, Adoretus comptus, Men. 



Range. Turkestan, Persia, Baluchistan, Sind. 



Elongate-oval, clothed above and beneath with minute white 

 setae. Head rather narrow, with the eyes not large or pro- 

 minent. Clypeal margin strongly reflexed and produced in front 

 into two rounded lobes which, with the rounded sides, give the 

 effect of a fourfold division. Antennae 10-jointed, with the club 

 moderately long. Labrum broad, vertical, without a median 

 process. Mandibles meeting one another, blunt at the extremity, 

 without teeth. Maxilla terminating in three strong teeth ; palpus 

 long, with the terminal joint broadly oval. Mentum short, broad, 

 very prominent beneath, with the ligular part very broad and 

 4-lobed in front, and the palpi short. Elytra long, covering the 

 pygidium. Legs moderately long, the front tibia armed with 

 three teeth, the second much nearer the first than the third. 



cT . The pygidium is convex, but rather short, and the abdomen 

 is nearly straight beneath. The longer front and middle claws 

 are scarcely perceptibly cleft at the extremity. 



$ . The abdomen is convex beneath, and the longer front and 

 middle claws are minutely cleft at the tip. 



Only a single species is known. 



306. Phaeadoretus comptus. 



Adoretus comptus, M6n6tr., Me'm. Acad. Petersb. vi, 1849, p. 62, 



pi. ii, f. 13. 

 Adoretus syriacus. Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 



p. 232. 



