ADOEEIUS. 339 



366. Adoretus sorex, sp. nov. (Plate V, fig. 29.) 



Chocolate-red, with the femora and tibiae pale yellow. 



Eather narrow and moderately convex in form, clothed some- 

 what closely with not very short or regularly disposed hairs, 

 intermixed with rather longer erect ones upon the elytra, those 

 on the pygidium long and erect. The clypeus is broadly rounded 

 and, like the forehead, densely and finely rugose. The pronotum 

 is closely but not very finely punctured, with the sides rounded, 

 the front angles rather obtuse and the hind angles rounded. The 

 scutellum is finely punctured, and the elytra closely but scarcely 

 rugosely, with rather indistinct costae. The legs are moderately 

 slender, the front tibiae armed with three teeth (the uppermost 

 very minute), the claws very unequal, the longer one minutely 

 cleft on the front and middle feet, the shorter one on the hind 

 foot exceedingly short. 



cJ The eyes are large and prominent, the clypeus small but 

 not very short, and the margin almost straight. 



$ unknown, but it has probably a larger and more rounded 

 clypeus. 



Length, 8 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



CEYLOJT : Horowapotana (C. F. S. Balcer, Nov.) ; MADRAS : 

 Ooimbatore (M. J. Walhouse) ; CENTRAL PROVINCES : Nagpur, 

 1000 ft. (E. A. D'Abreu, June). 



Type in the British Museum. / 



-367. Adoretus cribratus. (Plate V, fig. 32.) 



Adoretus cribratus, White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, xiv, 1844, 



p. 424. 

 Adoretus parallelus, Kraatz,* Wien. Ent. Zeit. 1895, p. 252 



(new syn.). 



Uniform light brown or red-brown, evenly and closely clothed 

 with minute decumbent setae, with a very few longer hairs near 

 the sides and extremities of the elytra. 



The body is elongate, parallel-sided and depressed. The head 

 is finely, densely and confluently punctured, the eyes very large 

 and prominent, and the clypeus small and semicircular. The 

 pronotum and scutellum are finely, densely and confluently 

 punctured, the former very short, with the front angles nearly 

 right angles and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra are 

 rugosely punctured and the costae indistinct ; the apical extremi- 

 ties are subangular (t. e. only 'minutely rounded) at the suture. 

 The clothing of the pygidium is erect and long upon the lower 

 half. The front tibia is armed with three sharp equidistant teeth, 

 the uppermost one minute, the hind tibia is a little contracted at 

 the extremity, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet 

 is cleft. The antenna is 10-jointed. 



cJ . The clypeus is smaller than that of the female. The 

 antenna is rather long, the club nearly as long as the foot-stalk. 

 The front tibia is rather long and the teeth are rather feeble. 



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