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and the elytra strongly and densely, with the costse distinct but 

 narrow. The pygidium is clothed with not very close or long 

 hair, which is erect near the apex. The front tibia is armed with 

 three strong acute teeth, the longer claw of each foot bears an 

 angular lamina at the base and on the front and middle feet is 

 slightly cleft. The shorter hind claw is rather more than half the 

 length of the other. 



c? . The eyes are large, and the clypeus small and transverse. 

 The pronotum is less convex than in the female and rather less 

 shining, and the pygidium is distinctly bare at the apex. The 

 longer front and middle claws are exceedingly minutely and 

 unequally cleft, and the middle one bears an obtuse tooth before 

 the middle of its inner edge, so that it appears as if notched near 

 the base. 



2 . The body is broader and more convex, and generally larger, 

 than in the male. The clypeus is semicircular and rather large, 

 and the eyes are less large and prominent. The pronotum is very 

 shining, with large but very scanty punctures and few setae except 

 at the sides. The longer front and middle claws are equally and 

 more deeply cleft. 



Length, 9-12 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



UNITED PROVINCES : Kanikhet (H. G. Champion, June to 

 Aug.), Jolikote (May) ; BENGAL : Pusa (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 

 May), Sunderbans, Calcutta (F. H. Gravely, March), Darbh- 

 anga, Murshidabad, Goalbathan (11. Hodgart, July); CENTRAL 

 PROVINCES : Jabalpur ; MADRAS : Coimbatore (T. V. Rama- 

 krishna, June), Bellary, Seruguppa (T. V. Ramalcrishna, July), 

 Trichinopoli (J. Gastets); CEYLON: Dikoya, 4000 ft. (G.Lewis, 

 Feb.) ; MALAY PENINSULA ; JAVA -. FIJI Is. ; SAMOA ; TONGATABU ; 

 MAURITIUS ; SEYCHELLES Is, : ST. HELENA. 



The figures in Ind. Mus. Notes, 1900, pi. iv, supposed to 

 represent this species under the name of Adoretus bangalorensis, 

 Brenske, appear to have been drawn from A. bicolor, Brenske, and 

 vice versa, the labels of the two insects having been transposed in 

 the Indian Museum. 



The name vestitus cannot be ued, having been previously given 

 by Keiche to another species of Adoretus. 



This extremely common and widely-distributed species seems 

 to have a partiality for rose-leaves, but Mr. Gravely has also 

 found it in large numbers feeding upon Cannas and Layerstrcemia 

 in Calcutta ; in Samoa it is found to be a pest of cacao, and it is 

 also reported as injurious to vines. At Pusa it has been found 

 underground in an indigo-field and also at the roots of oats in 

 May ; at Jolikote it was taken at the same time of year upon 

 apple seedlings and also on a loquat tree. Like most species of 

 the genus it lies hidden by day, and feeds and flies by night. In 

 Samoa larvae are found at all times of the year at the roots of 

 grasses and other plants. This beetle and the damage caused by 

 it in Samoa is the subject of a special report by K. Friederichs in 

 Zeits. "Wissen. Insectenbiol., Berlin, x, 2, 1914, pp. 41-47. 



