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sutural stripe upon the elytra, a little dilated round the scutellura, 

 very dark brown or black ; the clypeus, the extremities of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi are dark red. 



It is elongate-oval in shape and moderately convex, with a 

 rather dense clothing of uniform decumbent setae. The head is 

 not very large, finely and densely granular, with the eyes rather 

 far apart and the clypeus broadly rounded. The pronotum is 

 very finely and densely punctured, with the sides strongly 

 rounded, the front angles nearly right angles and the hind angles 

 very obtuse. The scutellurn is finely and densely punctured, and 

 the elytra strongly and confidently, with scarcely perceptible 

 costae. The pygidium is finely punctured and clothed with erect, 

 not very long, hairs. The legs are rather slender, the front tibiae 

 armed with three sharp teeth, the uppermost one a little nearer 

 to the second than that is to the first ; the longer front and 

 middle claws are bluntly toothed at the base and minutely cleft at 

 the tip, and the shorter hind claw is very strongly curved and less 

 than half the length of the other. 



d 1 . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is very 

 deeply notched a little beyond the base and very minutely cleft 

 at the tip. 



Length, 8-5-9-5 mm. ; breadth, 4-4-5 mm. 



CENTRAL PROVINCES: Nagpur, 1000 ft. (E. A .D'Abreu, June) ; 

 BOMBAY : Surat (//. Maxwell Lefroy, July), Belgaum (H. E. 

 Andrewes). 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This species very closely resembles A. suturalis, Arrow, but the 

 pronotum is more densely punctured and the head of the male is 

 scarcely different from that of the female. 



381. Adoretus suturalis. (Plate IV, figs. 28 & 29.) 



Adoretus sutumlis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii, 1914, 

 p. 592. 



Bright yellow, with the elytral suture, and usually also the fore- 

 head and the middle of the pronotum, black or dark brown, the 

 sutural line broad and dilated around the scutelluin. The dark 

 patches of the head and thorax are sometimes divided into t\vo 

 collateral masses. 



It is elongate-oval, moderately convex, strongly but not densely 

 punctured, somewhat shining, and moderately densely clothed with 

 fine grey setae, not closely decumbent. The clypeus and forehead 

 are coarsely granulated, the pronotum deeply but not densely 

 punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the front angles 

 nearly right angles, and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra 

 are strongly punctured, with the costae indistinct and the epi- 

 pleurae not developed. The pygidium is clothed upon its apical 

 part with long erect hair. The front tibia bears three sharp 

 teeth, the uppermost rather nearer to the second than that is to 

 the first ; the longer claw is minutely cleft on the front and middle 



