ADOKETUS. 337 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This is a very abundant species, greatly attracted by light. It 

 is easily recognised by the very scanty puncturation of the pro- 

 notum, especially in the female. 



363. Adoretus kanarensis, sp. nov. (Plate V, fig. 27.) 



Bright testaceous yellow, with the head, the pronotum (except 

 the lateral margins), a broad sutural stripe upon the elytra, 

 spreading to the humeral callus anteriorly and not quite reaching 

 the margins posteriorly, the extremities of the tibiae, and all the 

 tarsi, deep reddish-brown. 



It is elongate-oval in shape and rather 

 shining, the clothing consisting of minute 

 pale setse rather thinly scattered, except 

 upon the head and pygidium, where they are 

 longer and closer. The head is transversely 

 rugose, not very large, with the clypeus 

 broadly rounded. The pronotum is very 

 coarsely but not very closely punctured, 

 with the sides rounded, the front angles 

 nearly right angles and the hind angles 

 obtuse. The scutellum is finely rugose, and 

 the elvtra are coarsely and confidently 

 Fig. 72. Adoretus punctured, with well-marked elevated costse. 

 kanarensis, <$ . The p y g{di um has a bare apical area. The 

 legs are slender, the front tibia is armed 

 with three strong equidistant teeth, the larger claw of the front 

 and middle feet is cleft, and the shorter hind claw is more than 

 half the length of the longer. The antenna is 10-jointed, joints 

 3-5 progressively diminishing. 

 Length, 10 mm.; breadth, 5 mm. 

 BOMBAY : North Kanara. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only a single male specimen, taken by Mr. T. E. D. 

 Bell. 



364. Adoretus rugosus. (Plate V, fig. 33.) 



Adoretus rugosus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 589. 



Dark brown, with the antennas and femora yellow. 



Narrowly elongate and parallel- sided, and moderately closely 

 clothed with rather coarse greyish or yellowish hair, with longer 

 erect hairs interspersed. The pygidium, legs, and lower surface 

 are clothed with rather long upstanding hair. The eves are 

 exceedingly large and prominent, the clypeus small, semicircular, 

 and granulated, and the forehead and pronotum coarsely and 

 closely punctured, the latter with the sides moderatelv rounded, 

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

 The elytra are entirely coarsely rugose, without visible punctures 



