318 EUTELIN^. 



and opaque, clothed with setose scales in the anterior part 

 and with erect hairs towards the apex. A sharp continuous 

 carina extends along each side of the abdomen, and the pos- 

 terior edge of the propygidium is also sharply elevated and 

 united to the lateral carina3 by a short ridge which cuts off the 

 last spiracle on each side. The continuous abdominal carina 

 thus formed exactly coincides with the outer edges of the elytra. 

 The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with three very short 

 teeth placed close together, especially the two terminal ones, and 

 ihe upper part finely serrated; the tarsi rather short, the claws 

 rather unequal, and the longer front and middle claws minutely 

 cleft. The labrum is sharply toothed at the sides and the process 

 is very narrow. 



5 unknown. 



Length, 14 L5 mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. 



BENGAL : Suuderbans (Subramania Ayyar, Oct.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; co-type in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



Found damaging sundri trees (Heritiera littoralis). 



337. Adoretus costopilosus. (Plate IV, figs. 30, 31 & 32.) 



Adoretus costojnlosus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 506, 

 fig. 42. 



Dark brown, with the antennae, femora and tibiae generally a 

 little paler, and with the surface above and beneath moderately 

 closely clothed with short decumbent white setae, but the primary 

 costae of the elytra smooth and bearing each a double series of 

 larger and sparser setae. The sutural costa bears only a single 

 series of similar setae. 



It is rather elongate, parallel-sided and depressed, and the- 

 whole upper surface is sometimes shining and sometimes rendered 

 pemi-opaque by a dense microscopic puncturation. The head is 

 broad, with the clypeus broadly rounded and rugose, and the 

 forehead and vertex coarsely and i-onfluently punctured. The 

 pronotum is more coarsely punctured, with the sides and a 

 median area rugose ; the lateral margins are straight in front r 

 the front angles right angles and the hind angles very obtuse. 

 The elytra are coarsely and corifluently punctured, with the 

 sutural costa bordered by a deep groove, the discoidal costse 

 indistinct in front but well marked behind, and the apical calli 

 very prominent and bearing tufts of rather long erect setae. 

 The pygidium is clothed at the end with not very long erect 

 hairs. The front tibia is armed with three small teeth, the 

 uppermost one rather more remote from the second than that 

 is from the first, and above the teeth the outer edge is minutely 

 serrated ; the hind tibia is short and inflated, the longer claw 

 of the front and middle feet is cleft, and the shorter claw of 

 the hind foot is more than half the length of the longer one. 

 The antenna is 10-jointed. 



c? . The eyes are larger than those of the female, the clypeus 

 rather smaller, the pronotum more rugosely punctured, and the- 



