ADORETUS. 343 



elytra are strongly, coarsely and rather confluently punctured, 

 with the costse elevated and distinct, and without continuous 

 or opaque epipleurse. The pygidium is finely rugose and rather 

 evenly clothed with not very long erect hair. The legs are rather 

 stout, the front tibia armed with three strong, sharp, nearly 

 equidistant teeth, the hind tibia a little inflated, the longer front 

 and middle claws strongly cleft, and the shorter hind claw more 

 than half the length of the longer. 



c? . The clypeus is a little smaller, and the eyes are rather 

 larger and more prominent than in the female, 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5'5 mm. 



BURMA. 



A specimen of each sex was taken by Capt. A. K. "Weld 

 Downing. 



373. Adoretus duvauceli. (Plate V, fig. 43.) 



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



p. 232. 

 Adoretus concolor, Blanch.,* 1. c. (new syn.). 



Uniform dull brick-red, evenly and moderately closely clothed 

 with decumbent grey setae. 



Slightly elongate and rather depressed. The clypeus is rather 

 closely granulated, short and transverse, with its margin broadly 

 arcuated and very slightly reflexed ; the forehead is similarly but 

 a little less finely sculptured. The pronotum is short and 

 strongly, closely, but not densely punctured, with the front 

 angles acute and the hind angles almost rounded off. The 

 scutellum is rugosely punctured, and the elytra strongly and 

 densely, with narrow, rather inconspicuous costae ; the apical 

 callus bears a minute white spot, formed of closely aggregated 

 seta?. The front tibia is armed with three equidistant, not very 

 sharp teeth, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet is 

 cleft at the extremity. The antenna? are 10-jointed, the first 

 joint being long, the second globular, the third long, the fourth 

 to seventh progressively diminishing in length. 



cJ . The eyes are large and the clypeus small. The whole 

 apical part of the pygidium is shining and devoid of hairs, those 

 of the remaining surface being long and upstanding. The longer 

 claw of the middle foot bears an obtuse tooth before the middle of 

 its inner edge. 



5 . The clypeus is larger, the eyes smaller, and the pronotum 

 more coarsely punctured. 



Length, 11-13 mm. ; breadth, 5-5-7 mm. 



CENTRAL PROVINCES : Mhow (C. F. Selous) ; UNITED PROVINCES : 

 Agra ; SIKKIM : Darjiling (G. Rogers) ; BENGAL : Calcutta (F. H. 

 Gravely, March-June), Sarda (F. W. Champion), Pusa (T. Bain- 

 briyge Fletcher, July -Sept.). 



Types in the Paris Museum. 



According to Mr. T. B. Fletcher, this beetle has been found to 

 do great damage to the leaves of vines and figs in the Government 



