332 RUTELIN^E. 



coincides with the outer edges of the elytra. The legs are slender, 

 the front tibia is furnished with three strong sharp teeth, the 

 longer front and middle claws are cleft, and the shorter hind claw 

 is more than half the length of the longer one. 



cJ . The eyes are larger and more prominent, and the clypeus 

 is smaller than in the female. 



Length, 9'5 mm. : breadth, 4'5 mm. 



ASSAM: Patkai Hills (W. Doherty}. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A. qfftnis has the closest relationship and similarity to A. ariel, 

 but the elytral epipleurae, although distinct, are narrow and not 

 different in texture from the remaining surface. 



356. Adoretus debilis, sp. nov. 



Uniformly very pale yellow, with the antennae and tarsi alone 

 a little darker. 



It is narrowly elongate, rather depressed, shining and only very 

 scantily clothed with minute setae. The clypeus is lightly 

 rugulose, subangularly produced in the middle of the front 

 margin, which is broadly but obliquely reflexed. The forehead, is 

 a little more closely rugulose and the eyes are not very large. 

 The pronotum is very thinly punctured, especially in its median 

 part, and the sides are gently and uniformly rounded, with the front 

 angles rather acute and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra 

 are strongly but not very densely punctured, with the costae 

 narrow and rather indistinct in front, broader and more pronounced 

 behind. The pygidium is clothed with erect setae, which are 

 longer and closer just above the apex. 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 

 carinae by a short ridge, which cuts off the last spiracle on each 

 side. The outer edges of the elytra exactly coincide with the 

 continuous carina formed in this way. The front tibia is armed 

 with three very strong sharp teeth, the uppermost farther from 

 the second than that is from the first ; the tarsi are not long, the 

 longer front and middle claws cleft at the tip. The antennae are 

 10-jointed, the seventh joint extremely short. 



$ unknown. 



Length, 9*5 mm.; breadth, 4-5 mm. 



BENGAL : Pusa. 



Type in the British Museum, co-type in the Agricultural 

 Research Institute, Pusa. 



Taken under dry leaves and afc light. 



357. Adoretus incurvatus. 



Adoretus incurvatus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 487, 

 fig. 20. 



Reddish-brown, with the front of the clypeus, the sides of the 



