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to the abdominal carina by a short ridge which cuts off the angle 

 containing the last spiracle on each side. 



c? . The front tibia bears two sharp teeth and a very feeble 

 upper one, and the pygidium is convex, with an almost smooth 

 area at the apex. 



$ . The front tibia has three teeth ; the pygidium is flattened 

 and slightly emargiuate at the apex. 



The clypeus scarcely differs in the two sexes. 



Length, 12-13 mm. ; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



CEYLON : Ohiya (E. E. Green, Nov.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



324. Adoretns duplicates, sp. nov. (Plate V, figs. 12 & 13.) 



Reddish brown, with the elytra, femora and tibiae yellowish, 

 the margins of the elyfra and the tarsi red-brown, the forehead 

 and more or less of the pronotum dark brown and faintly 

 suffused with a greenish or reddish metallic lustre. The whole 

 surface is clothed with rather long white hairs, which are very 

 dense upon the scutellum and pygidium and rather scanty upon 

 the elytra, except at the lateral and apical margins. 



It is elongate-oval, convex and rather shining. The head 

 is small, with the clypeus semicircular, densely rugose, and its 

 anterior margin strongly reflexed; the forehead is strongly 

 punctured. The prouotum is coarsely, sparingly and irregularly 

 punctured, but a little more closely towards the sides, which 

 .are rounded, the front angles nearly right angles and the hind 

 angles very obtuse. The elytra are strongly arid distinctly 

 punctured, with narrow, well-marked, but scarcely elevated 

 costae ; the clothing is very sparse near the suture, but becomes 

 more abundant towards the sides and apices, and the three or 

 four longitudinal costae bear rows of longer erect white bristles 

 placed far apart. The prosternum is strongly elevated behind 

 the front coxae, and the shorter hind claw is much less than 

 half the length of the longer one. 



3 . The eyes are very prominent, the clypeus smaller, more 

 finely rugose and closely hairy. The pygidium is long and 

 densely clothed, except at the apex, with long erect hair, which 

 is longest in the middle. The front tibia is armed with three 

 very short but sharp teeth, placed near the extremity ; the 

 claws are very unequal, and the longer one of the front and 

 middle feet very minutely cleft at a distance from the apex. 

 The club of the antenna is long. 



2 . The body is relatively shorter, more oval and less closely 

 pubescent ; the eyes are smaller, the clypeus larger and more 

 coarsely rugose ; the teeth of the front tibia are less sharp and 

 more oblique, and the tarsi are shorter, with the longer claw 

 of the front and middle feet cleft at the apex. The pygidium is 

 short and thinly pubescent. 



Length, 14 mm. : breadth, 6-5-7 mm. 



