ADOBETUS. 317 



It is narrowly elongate in form, parallel-sided and rather 

 depressed. The head is finely and rugosely punctured, with the 

 eyes very large and prominent, and the clypeus semicircular and 

 not very large. The pronotum is closely and rather rugosely, but 

 Jess finely, punctured, with the sides gently rounded, the front 

 angles slightly acute and the hind angles well-marked but obtuse. 

 The elytra are deeply and coarsely punctured, the punctures partly 

 confluent, especially on the middle, and the longitudinal costae 

 incomplete. The apical part of the pygidium is bare and smooth, 

 but surrounded by long erect hairs. A continuous sharp carina 

 extends along each side of the abdomen, and the posterior margin 

 of the propygidium is also sharply elevated and united to the 

 lateral carinse by a short ridge on each side, which cuts off the last 

 spiracle. The outer edges of the elytra fit against the ridge thus 

 formed. The antennae are 10-jointed. The legs are not long, the 

 front tibia armed with three very short and minute but sharp equi- 

 distant teeth, with minute and not close serrations above them ; 

 the longer front and middle claws are very minutely cleft at the 

 tip, and the shorter hind claw is more than half the length of 

 the longer. 



$ unknown. 



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



E. BENGAL: Buxa Duars (C. F. C. Beef on, Nov.); ASSAM: 

 Sylhet. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A specimen was found by Mr. Beeson upon the bark of a sal 

 tree (Shorea robustft). 



336. Adoretus gemmifer, sp. nov. 



Uniform chocolate-brown, with the femora and tibiae a little 

 lighter, and clothed above with very minute white scales, evenly 

 distributed and not in contact, the elytra having 

 a few larger scattered scales in irregular longi- 

 tudinal rows. 



It is a very large species of elongate de- 

 pressed form, with the upper surface finely and 

 densely granulated and opaque. The head is 

 large, minutely granulated, and rather closely 

 clothed with elongate scales, with the clypeus 

 strongly rounded and minutely produced in the 

 middle of the front margin. The pronotum is 



, finely and densely rugulose, with the sides 



Fi 69 gently rounded, the front angles rather acute, 



Adoretus gemmifer. the hind angles distinct, but obtuse, and the 

 base slightly lobed in the middle. The 

 scutellum is rather shining, but a little rugulose at the base, 

 and the elytra are very finely and closely granulated, without 

 punctures, and with only very inconspicuous narrow costae, the 

 apical calli being prominent. The pygidium is minutely coriaceous 



