S28 BUTELIN.*. 



350. Adoretus pleuralis. 



Adoretus pleuralis, Ohaus, Deutsche Eat. Zeits. 1914, p. 481, 

 fig. 13. 



" Elongate-oval, the a little dilated, rather convex, pale 

 testaceous, slightly shilling, with the head, the middle of the 

 thorax and a broad band behind the scutellum almost reaching 

 the hinder margin [i. e. of the elytra] blackish-brown, the surface 

 reddish with scattered fine granules ; frontal suture straight, 

 carinate ; forehead and vertex closely covered with fine granules 

 and isolated punctures ; yes prominent. Thorax rather more 

 than twice as broad as long, with the front margin produced 

 forwards in the middle, the hind margin backwards, the sides 

 slightly dilated behind the middle, the blunt hind angles rather 

 rounded, the rectangular front angles hardly produced, the upper 

 surface closely and rather confluently punctured, but the sculp- 

 ture, as also that of the head, sparser in the $ than in the d . 

 Scutellum reddish yellow, sculptured like the thorax. Upon the 

 elytra the primary costse and rows of punctures are indistinct ; 

 the whole surface is closely and confluently punctured, with fine 

 short transverse rugaa at least upon the disc. The epipleurse are 

 very broad, yellow and shining near the shoulder, reddish brown 

 and opaque behind, extending almost to the sutural angle, with a 

 close short fringe upon both the thickened and crenulated upper 

 margin and the lower margin. The hind margin of the pro- 

 pygidium is carinate and closely setose; it [i.e. the carina] 

 is continued laterally as a carinate brown ridge which divides the 

 ventral part of the abdominal segments from the pleural part. 

 Pygidium short, with broadly rounded apex in the 3 , a little 

 elevated before the apex and clothed with long erect hairs. Legs 

 slender; front tibiae armed with three teeth, the middle one a 

 little approximated to the basal one ; middle and hind tibise with 

 two indistinct spinose ridges. 



"Length, 10'5 mm.; breadth, 5-5*5 mm. 



" BRITISH INDIA : ? Assam." 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



I do not know this species. 



351. Adoretus bimarginatus. 



Adoretus bimarginatus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits.' 1914, p. 480, 

 fig. 12. 



Bright yellow, with the head and tarsi dark red, the vertex 

 nearly black. 



It is rather short, broad, and fairly closely clothed with short 

 uniformly disposed decumbent white setae. The head is large and 

 densely rugose, with the eyes not very large or prominent, and 

 the clypeus broadly semicircular. The pronotum is convex, 

 fairly closely but distinctly puuctured and rather shining, with 

 the sides strongly rounded, the front angles nearly right angles 



