ADOEETUS. 347 



MADBAS : Coromandel (according to Fabricius) ; CEYLOX r 

 Colombo (Dr. A. Willey). 



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

 Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



The type is a female without legs< A second specimen in the 

 British Museum without definite locality is a male. The species 

 has a resemblance to A. renardi, Brenske, but the elytra are 

 without the wide opaque epipleurae which characterize the latter. 



Ohaus gives only the vague " Ostindien " as the habitat of his 

 A. brahmanus. 



379. Adoretus tricolor. 



Adoretus bicolor, Brenske, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii, 1893, p. 142. 

 Adoretus caliyinoms, var. bicolor, Brenske, Ind. 31 us. Notes, 1900, 

 p. 38. 



Bright reddish-yellow, with the pronotum reddish, and the 

 head and tarsi rather deep red ; closely clothed above and 

 beneath with minute uniform decumbent seta?. 



It is convex, oval and moderately elongate. The clypeus and 

 forehead are coarsely granulated, the former semicircular, with a 

 strongly reflexed margin. The pronotum is densely but not very 

 minutely punctured ; the sides are strongly rounded, with the 

 front angles rather acute and the hind angles rounded off. The 

 elytra are strongly and closely punctured, with the cost distinct 

 and the epipleurae not developed. The pygidium is clothed with 

 erect but not very long setae. The front tibia is armed with three 

 strong equidistant teeth, the longer claw of the front and middle 

 feet is minutely cleft, and the shorter claw of the hind feet is 

 about half as long as the longer. The antennae are 10-jointed. 



c? . The clypeus is rather smaller than that of the female. 



Length, 10-11 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



SIKKIM : Kurseong ; BENGAL : Sarda (F. W. Champion}, Cal- 

 cutta (Simson), Pusa (T. Bainbrigye Fletcher, June); CENTEAD 

 PEOYINCES : Jabalpur ; BOMBAY: Surat (H. Maxwell Lefroy, 

 June) ; MADEAS : Berhampur (E. T. Atkinson), Bangalore, 

 3000 fr. (May), Coimbatore (April), Kodumur, Kurnool (July). 



The type (a single specimen from Kurseong) cannot be found 

 either in Brenske's collection (now the property of Capt. Moser) 

 or in the Royal Museum at Brussels. I have seen, however, speci- 

 mens described by Brenske under the same name (but treated as 

 a variety of A. cal'ujinosus) in the Indian Museum. It was appa- 

 rently this insect which was figured at the same time (Plate IV, 

 figs. 1 & 2), but with the name of A. banyalorensis, the labels having 

 been transposed. 



380. Adoretus decanus. 



Adoretus decanus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 489, fig. 23. 



Bright testaceous yellow, with the forehead and vertex of the 

 head, the pronotum (except the lateral margins), and a broad 



