338 RUTELINjE. 



and with only vague indications of the usual costae. The pygi- 

 dium is shining and clothed with long erect hairs. The legs and 

 antennae are very long and slender, the front tibia armed with 

 three small but sharp teeth, the uppermost one very minute and 

 more distant from the second than that is from the first ; the 

 longer claw is cleft upon the front and middle feet, and the 

 shorter claw of the hind foot is about half the length of the 

 longer one. The antennae are 10-jointed, joints 3-6 very 

 elongate. 



3 . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft at a 

 considerable distance from the tip. 



Length, 13'5-14'5 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



CEYLON : Maskeliya (E. E. Green, May, August). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is one of the larger species of Adoretus. It has consider- 

 able resemblance to A. singhalensis, Ohaus, but is larger, and 

 differs from that and most other Adoreti in the rugose elytra, 

 the usual paired rows of punctures and close-set interstitial 

 puncturation being quite absent. 



365. Adoretus ovalis. (Plate V, fig. 28.) 



Adoretus ovalis, Blanch. * Oat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 

 p. 233 ; Sharp, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii, 1903, p. 472. 



Dark brown or almost black, with the antennae, legs and lower 

 surface lighter, and usually also the clypeua, sides of the pronotum 

 and shoulders of the elytra ; the whole very evenly and rather 

 closely clothed with minute decumbent greyish setae. 



Elongate-ovate in shape and rather convex, with the head 

 small. The clypeus is semicircular and densely granulated, with 

 the margin feebly reflexed, and the forehead is roughly punc- 

 tured. The pronotum is densely punctured, convex, with the 

 sides strongly rounded and approximating anteriorly; the front 

 angles are acute, and the hind angles well-marked and only 

 slightly rounded. The elytra are rather rugosely punctured and 

 the costae indistinct. The pygidium is flat, finely coriaceous and 

 clothed with grey hair, which is longer and not decumbent at the 

 apex. The legs are rather long, the front tibia armed with 

 three sharp equidistant teeth, and the longer front and middle 

 claws cleft. The antennae are 10-jointed, the first joint clubbed, 

 the second globular, the third to seventh gradually diminishing. 



c? . The clypeus is a little smaller, the longer front and middle 

 claws are extremely minutely cleft, and the pygidium is moderately 

 long. 



$ . The clypeus is larger and slightly pointed and the pygidium 

 very short. 



Length, 10-12 mm. ; breadth, 5'5-6 mm. 



MADRAS : Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andreives), TJtakamand (G. A. 

 Barber, April). 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



