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BUTELIN^E. 



setae, which are a little closer and longer upon the pygidium and 

 lower surface. It is rather parallel-sided and moderately convex. 

 The head is rugulose, the clypeus broad, 

 with a strongly reflexed margin. The pro- 

 notum is short and broad, much broader 

 than the head across the eyes, with deep, 

 rather scattered punctures, the lateral mar- 

 gins strongly rounded, the hind angles 

 scarcely traceable. The scutellum bears a 

 few punctures, and the elytra are rather 

 strongly but not rugulosely punctured, with 

 distinct double lines of punctures. The 

 pygidium is clothed with very fine, mode- 

 Fig. 65 -Lissadoretus rately close hair - The fr n t tibia is armed 

 pallidns, rf. Wlth three Ver 7 8tron S teeth - 



c? . The pygidium is rather closely clothed, 



but the apical part is devoid of hair and has a rounded elevation 

 in the middle. The front angles of the prothorax are very 

 obtuse. The reflexed margin of the clypeus has a very slight, and 

 sometimes imperceptible, notch in the middle. 



5 . The pronotum is very broad and its front angles are slightly 

 acute. The pygidium is less thickly clothed, with a bare median 

 line. 



Length, 9-10 mm.; breadth, 4'5-5'5 mm. 



PUNJAB: Taru, Peshawar Distr. (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, May), 

 Lahore (July), Khanewah (T. B. Fletcher, Aug.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



This insect appears to resemble Pseudadoretus (subg. Epadoretvs) 

 reitteri, Sem., a smaller species from Turkestan, but the structural 

 differences are important. 



Genus PSEUDADORETUS. 



Pseudadoretus, Senienov, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross, xxiv, 1890, p. 202 ; 

 Reitter, \>erh. Nat. Ver. Briinn, xli, 1903, p. 33. 



TYPE, Pseudadoretus dilutellus, Sem. 



Range. Western Asia. 



Ovate, rather compact and convex, and almost without hairy 

 clothing. Integument very thin and uniformly pale in colour, 

 with the eyes and mouth-parts alone dark. Head large, with the 

 eyes very prominent and the clypeus uniformly rounded. Pro- 

 notum very small, narrower than the elytra at the shoulders. 

 Elytra smooth, shining and semitransparent. Front and middle 

 legs with fringes of long hairs ; the front tibia armed with three 

 sharp teeth, the middle tibia rather slender, the hind tibia dilating 

 regularly from hase to extremity, where it is very broad ; tarsi 

 moderately slender, with all the claws simple, slender and very 

 unequal. Labrum strongly serrated on each side of its posterior 

 part and produced anteriorly into a very smooth, flat and broad 

 process, dilated at the base and before the extremity and without 



