ADORETUS. 345 



rugulose and opaque : there are no elevated costae. The pygidiuin 

 is finely rugose and clothed with fine setae arranged in two lateral 

 patches uniting in the middle, leaving bare patches at the base 

 and apex. The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with three 

 strong, nearly equidistant teeth ; the claws very unequal, the 

 longer front and middle ones very minutely cleft, and the shorter 

 claw of the hind foot much less, than halt' the length of the 

 other. 



d 1 . The eyes are a little more prominent than in the female and 

 the cleavage of the longer front and middle claws is extremely 

 minute. 



Length, 12-13-5 mm. ; breadth, 6-6-5 mm. 



PUNJAB : Multan (0. A. Smith, Dec.), Peshawar. 



Type in the British Museum; co-type in the Bombay Natural 

 History Society's collection. 



The arrangement of the clothing of the pygidium in two 

 masses is peculiar. The species is closely similar to A. horticola, 

 but a little less narrowed in front. 



376. Adoretus mus. (Plate V, fig. 35.) 



Adoretus mus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, p. 591. 



Dark brown, with the head and thorax nearly black, and the 

 femora and abdomen beneath generally yellow. 



It is a verv small, narrow-bodied species, moderatelv thickly 

 clothed with a rather rough grey pubescence, with intermingled 

 erect hairs, the pygidium entirely clothed with long erect hair. 

 The head is finely and closely rugose, the clypeus rather large 

 and semicircular. The pronotum is moderately closely punctured, 

 the front angles slightly and the hind angles very obtuse. The 

 elytra are rugosely punctured and devoid of costse and of lateral 

 carinae. The front tibia bears three nearly equidistant teeth, the 

 uppermost feeble and placed near the middle ; the longer claw of 

 the front and middle tarsi is minutely cleft, and the shorter claw 

 of the hind tarsus is less than half the length of the longer one. 

 The antennas are long, the third, fourth, and fifth joints nearly 

 equal in length, the sixth about twice as long, and the seventh 

 minute. 



c? . The antennal club is very long. 



I have not seen a female. 



Length, 5-5-6 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



CEYLON : Diyatalawa (T. Bainbriyge Fletcher, Sept.) 



Type in the British Museum. 



377. Adoretus distinguendus. (Plate V, figs. 38 & 39.) 



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

 1914, p. 598. 



Testaceous, with the tarsi, head, and an ill-defined patch on 

 each side of the middle line of the pronotum reddish ; fairly 



