340 BUTEI IV JE. 



The longer claw of the front and middle feet is only very minutely 

 cleft. 



Length, 11-13 mm.; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



BUBMA : Teinzo (L. Fea, May), Pegu, Tikekee (L. Pea. June), 

 Bhamo (L. Fea, Aug.), Moulmein, Tenasserim ; SIAM ; CHINA : 

 Hongkong. 



Type in the British Museum ; that of A. parallelus in the 

 Berlin Entomological Museum. 



368. Adoretus lasius. 



Adoretus lasius, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 501, fig. 35. 



Brownish black, with the antennae and legs reddish ; uniformly 

 and rather thickly clothed above and beneath with moderately 

 long grey decumbent setae, the costse bearing in the posterior 

 part a very few inconspicuous erect hairs. 



It is elongate in shape and the legs are not long. The eyes 

 are very large and prominent, the clypeus semicircular and 

 densely granular, and the forehead and vertex rugosely punctured. 

 The pronotum is very strongly and closely punctured, the sides 

 rugosely ; the lateral margins are straight in front, the front 

 angles right angles and the hind angles almost rounded away. 

 The scutellum is finely and densely punctured; the elytra are 

 rugosely punctured, with not very distinct costae, the epipleura? 

 not distinct behind and the sutural angles rounded. The pygi- 

 dium is rather uniformly clothed with not very long erect hairs. 

 The antenna is 10-jointed, joints 3 to 5 short and equal. The 

 front tibia bears three sharp equidistant teeth, the hind tibia is 

 very stout, the claws are very unequal, the shorter one on the 

 hind foot less than half the length of the other, and the longer 

 front and middle ones minutely cleft. 



c? . The body is very long and narrow, with the clypeus very 

 small, and the eyes very large and prominent. The teeth of the 

 front tibia are short but very sharp, the longer front and middle 

 claws are exceedingly minutely cleft, and the larger middle claw 

 is anguhited towards the middle of its lower edge. 



Length, 11-1 2'5 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



SIKKIM : Gopaldhara, Etmgbong Volley (W. K. Webb, June), 

 Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson), Pashok, Darjiling, 3500 ft. (F. H. 

 Gravely, May, June), Kurseong (Verschraegheri) ; ASSAM : Patkai 

 Hills (W. Doherty}. 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



369. Adoretus posticalis, sp. nov. (Plate IV, figs. 33 & 34.) 



Reddish brown, with the femora and tibiae pale yellow; clothed 

 with not very close or short grey hair, interspersed with longer 

 erect hairs on the elytra. 



It is rather narrow and depressed. The head is shining and 

 rather sparingly granulated, with the clypeus small and broadly 



