352 RUTELIN.E. 



384. Adoretus latirostris. 



Adoretus latirostris, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914. p. 496, 

 fig. 30. 



Very dark brown, with the sides of the pronotum, the scutellum, 

 the antennae, femora, tibiae and sternum testaceous, and clothed 

 very densely with fine uniform grey pubescence. 



It is elongate-oval and not very convex. The clypeus is large, 

 nearly semicircular, and finely arid densely granulated, with the 

 margin strongly reflexed ; the forehead and vertex are finely and 

 closely punctured. The pronotum is also finely and densely punc- 

 tured, with the sides straight in front, strongly rounded behind, 

 the front angles rather acute and the hind angles almost rounded 

 off. The scutellum is finely and closely punctured, and the elytra 

 densely, with rather indistinct costae. The pygidiutn is clothed 

 with uniform, erect, but not very long hair. The legs are rather 

 slender ; the front tibia is armed with three very strong teeth, 

 the uppermost nearer to the second than that is to the fin>t ; the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is minutely cleft, and 

 the shorter hind claw extremely short. The rostral part of the 

 labrum of this species is very broad, flat and shining. 



<3 . The eyes are large and prominent, and the longer front and 

 middle claws are extremely minutely cleft at a distance from the 

 apex. 



$ . The head is large, the clypeus very large and rather para- 

 bolic, and the eyes relatively small. The rostrum is much broader 

 than in the male. 



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



BOMBAY : Belgaum (H. E. Andrewes) ; MADEAS : Nilgiri Hills 

 (Sir G. F. Hampson}. 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection or that of the Berlin Entomo- 

 logical Museum. 



A single specimen remaining in Mr. Andrewes' collection is 

 from the same source as the type, which was not returned by the 

 late Dr. Kraatz when lent to him by Mr. Andrewes for deter- 

 mination many years ago. 



385. Adoretus infans. (Plate Y, fig. 41.) 



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

 p. 590. 



Pale testaceous, with the head, pronotum, and tarsi reddish, 

 strongly and closely punctured above, and thickly clothed with 

 fine, rather long, grey decumbent hairs, interspersed with a few 

 longer erect hairs. 



It is elongate and moderately convex, with a large head, very 

 prominent eyes, and semicircular clypeus, which is closely granu- 

 lated. The forehead and pronotum are deeply and closely punc- 

 tured, the sides of the latter straight in front and the angles right 

 angles, strongly rounded behind and the angles very obtuse. The 

 elytra are strongly and closely but not rugosely punctured, the 



