306 RUTELIN^E. 



Adoretus plagiatus, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 531. 

 Adoretus jflavovittattts, Nonfr., Berl. Ent. Zeits. 1891, p. 362. 

 Adoretus castaneus, Nonfr., 1. c. p. 363 ; Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. 

 Zeits. 1914, p. 491. 



Deep chocolate-brown, with the lower surface, legs, scutellum 

 arid sides of the pronotum and elytra yellow, and a stripe of the 

 same colour extending backwards from the shoulder to beyond 

 the middle of each elytron. 



Eather short, broad and nearly parallel-sided, convex above, 

 rather smooth and shining, and only very sparsely clothed with 

 minute setae. The head is large, with the eyes prominent, but 

 only moderately large, the clypeus semicircular, almost as wide 

 as the head, feebly rugulose and setose, and strongly reflexed 

 at the margin, the forehead moderately punctured and setose. 

 The pronotum is very short, sparingly but strongly punctured^ 

 with the sides parallel in front, the front angles acute and the 

 hind angles completely rounded off". The scutellum bears a few 

 punctures, and the elytra are rugosely punctured, with feebly 

 developed costae, and with minute setae arranged in longitudinal 

 rows rather remote from one another. The pygidium is coria- 

 ceous and very thinly clothed with fine erect hairs. The lower 

 surface is rather more closely but not thickly clothed with 

 greyish hair. The antenna? are slender, 9-joiuted, the first joint 

 long, the second globular, the third, fourth and fifth elongate and 

 subequal in length, the sixth very short, and the remaining three 

 forming the club. The front tibiae are armed with three strong 

 teeth, all the tarsi are slender, and the longer claw of the front 

 and middle feet is cleft ; the shorter hind claw is more than half 

 the length of the longer one. 



J . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is only very 

 feebly cleft and the eyes are rather larger than in the female. 



Length, 7-9 mm.; breadth, 3'5-4 - 5 mm. 



BENGAL : Katihar, Purneah Distr. (C. A. Paiva), Calcutta, 

 Chowriughee (F. H. Gravely, June), Dacca, Berhampur (E. T. At- 

 kinson), Maldah (Atkinson) ;' UNITED PROVINCES : Cawnpore (G. S. 

 Betton, July) ; BTTKMA : Teinzo (L. Pea, May), Shenmaga (L. Feu, 

 June), Cachin Hills (H. L. Stanton), Tharrawaddy and Taung-ngu 

 (G. Q. Corbett) ; SIAM (teste Nonfried). 



Type in the Paris Museum ; that of A. playiatus in the Geneva 

 Museum ; those of A. flavovittatus and A. castaneus in Dr. Ohaus' 

 collection. 



322. Adoretus ermineus. 



Adoretus ermineus, Arrow, Ann. Masr. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 588. 



Testaceous, thickly clothed above with white or pale yellow 

 scaly decumbent setae, which become gradually more dense 

 towards the hinder part of the elytra, and are extremely dense 

 upon the scutellum and the outer margins of the elytra. The 



