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and clothed with short erect seise. The front tibia is armed with 

 two strong but not very sharp teeth, and a third which is minute 

 and stands beyond the middle, but nearer to the second than that 

 is to the first ; the tarsi are rather slender and the claws not very 

 long, the longer front and middle ones cleft, and the shorter one 

 of the hind foot more than half the length of the other. The 

 antenna is 10-jointed. 



c? The longer front and middle claws are minutely cleft at 

 a little distance from the tip, and the pygidium is large and 

 convex. 



$ . The pygidium is very short and the abdomen very convex. 



Length, 10-11 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



BUBMA: Mandalay (H. L. Andrewes, June), Minhla (Comotto), 

 Da Tenang-Taung (L. Fea, May), Shenmaga (L. Fea, June). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in the Genoa Museum 

 and Mr. H. E. Andrewes' collection. 



859. Adoretus pallens. 



Adoretus pallens, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 



p. 233. 

 Adoretus nudiusculus, Sharp, Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xlvii, 



2, 1878, p. 173 (new syn.). 



Bright yellow, with the tarsi and the vertex (or the whole) of 

 the head deep red, the surface of the body rather thinly clothed 

 with minute pale seta3, the sides fringed with long hair. 



It is rather narrow, convex and cylindrical. The eyes are 

 prominent and the clypeus rather broadly transverse, with the 

 sides nearly parallel and the margin strongly reflexed ; like the 

 forehead, it is shining and finely and not closely punctured. 

 The pronotum is also shining, deeply and rather sparingly 

 punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the front angles 

 acute and the hind angles entirely rounded off. The scutellum 

 is well punctured, and the elytra rugosely and indistinctly, with 

 the costa3 not well marked. The pygidium is rather closely 

 clothed with soft, not very long or erect hair. The antenna? are 

 10-jointed, the first joint clubbed, the second globose, the third 

 to seventh regularly diminishing in length. The front tibia is 

 armed with three strong teeth, and the longer claw of the front 

 and middle feet is cleft. 



d" . The teeth of the front tibia are very sharp, the longer 

 front and middle claws are minutely cleft at a little distance from 

 the apex, and the pygidium is large and convex. 



$ . The pygidium is short and covered by the elytra and the 

 abdomen is very tumid. 



Length, 8-5-1.0 mm. ; breadth, 4-5 mm. 



BURMA: Taung-ngu, Prome, Tharrawaddy (G. 'Q. Corbett), 

 Myingyan (T. B. Fletcher, Aug.). 



Type in the Paris Museum; that of A. nudiusculus in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



