304 BUTELINJE. 



The body is rather long and narrow, the head narrow and the 

 eyes not large. The clypeus is irregularly semicircular, with the 

 margin well reflexed, the sides parallel, slightly 

 contracted at the base, the front margin a 

 little depressed in the middle and gently lobed 

 on each side. The pronotum is strongly and 

 coarsely punctured, the front angles nearly 

 right angles and the hind angles rounded 

 away. The scutellum is finely rugose, and 

 the elytra are strongly and distinctly punc- 

 tured, with narrow, rather indistinct costae. 

 The pygidium is finely rugose and closely 

 setose, except at the extremity. The setae 

 Fig. 67.Adoretiis are erect at the end, but there is no bair- 

 lobiceps. tuft. The legs are rather slender, the front 



tibia armed with three strong teeth equi- 

 distant from one another ; the longer claw is very minutely cleft 

 on the front and middle feet, and on the hind foot the shorter 

 claw is more thaa half the length of the longer. The antennae 

 are 10-jointed, not long, and joints 3-6 are of nearly equal 

 length. 



The sexes are similar, but the abdomen of the male is well 

 arched and that of the female very convex. 

 Length, 11-5-13 mm. ; breadth, 5'5-6 mm. 

 BOMBAY: Surat (H. Maxwell Lefroy}; CENTRAL PROVINCES: 

 Jabalpur Distr. (Ind. Mus.), Nagpur (E. A. D'Abreu, June). 

 Type in the British Museum. 

 Mr. D'Abreu took this upon rose-trees. 



319. Adoretus excisus. 



Adoretus excisus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 486, fig. 19. 



3 . " Elongate-oval, rather strongly convex, light red-brown 

 and moderately shining. Head and thorax with slight metallic 

 lustre, clothed with short scattered hairs. Clvpeus of the J semi- 

 circular, with a strongly reflexed black margin, which is almost 

 semicircularly emarginate in front ; the upper surface, as well as 

 the forehead and vertex, rather closely and confluently punctured, 

 the sculpture concealed by the greyish-white decumbent hairs ; 

 a transverse bare area upon the vertex behind. Thorax only a 

 little more than twice as broad as long, with its hind margin 

 almost straight, its front margin prominent in the middle, the sides 

 dilated behind the middle, the blunt hind angles slightly rounded, 

 and the rectangular front angles a little produced ; the upper sur- 

 face strongly and often confluently punctured, clothed with short 

 and rather scanty greyish-white hairs, with a bare spot in the 

 middle. Upon the elytra the costae are only elevated in freshly 

 emerged specimens, but the primary double rows of punctures are 

 regular and the punctures in the intervals mostly arranged in 

 rows, with quite fine transverse wrinkles and microscopically fine 



