ADORETUS. 353 



costse rather indistinct and the epi pleurae undeveloped. The 

 pygidium is clothed with long erect hair. The front tibia bears 

 three sharp but not strong equidistant teeth ; the longer claw is 

 minutely cleft in the front and middle feet, and the shorter claw 

 of the hind foot is much less than half the length of the longer. 

 The antennae are 10-jointed, joints 3 and 6 longer than 4 and 5. 



cJ. The body is much narrower in shape, the eyes larger, and 

 the clyp->us smaller, than in the female. 



Leii;/th, 8'5-10 mm. ; breadth, 4-4*5 mm. 



CEYLON: Eppawela, North Central Prov. (E. E. Green, Sept.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



386. Adoretus feminalis. (Plate V, fig. 44.) 



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



p. 590. 

 Adoretus infuscatus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 483, 



n'g. 15 (new syn.). 



Brown, with the sides of the pronotum and the sides or the 

 whole of the elytra paler. 



It is rather short and ovate, and uniformly clothed with mode- 

 rately dense short greyish setae. The clypeus is semicircular and 

 granulated and the eyes are not large ; the forehead is stronglv and 

 rather rugosely punctured ; and the pronotum is short, moderately 

 closely and finely punctured, with the front angles right angles and 

 the hind angles rounded off. The scntellum and elytra are closely 

 and distinctly punctured, the costae upon the latter are narrow and 

 distinct, and the epipleurse are not continued behind. The pygidium 

 is shallowly pitted or punctured and clothed with setae, which are 

 erect only at the apical part. The sides of the metasternum are 

 stronglv punctured. The front tibia is armed with three acute 

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

 is cleft, and the shorter claw of the hind foot is more than half 

 the length of the other. The antenna consists of ten joints, the 

 third to the siith progressively diminishing in size. ~ "" ; 



cJ . The clypeus is rather small, and the longer front and^middle 

 claws are very minutely cleft. 



Length, 9-5-10 mm. ; breadth, 5'5 mm. 



CEYLON : Kandy (Gilles), -Peradeniya (E. E. Green, Nov.), 

 Colombo (E. E. Green, March). 



Type in the British Museum. 



387. Adoretus bengalensis. (Plate V, fig. 49.) 



Adoretus bengalensis, Brenske,* Ann. Soc. Eat. Belg. xxxvii. 1893, 

 p. 142. 



Dark brown, with the forehead almost black, the legs pale, and 

 the posterior part of the outer margins of the elytra and an 

 elongate patch upon the apical callus vaguely reddish. It is 

 rather thickly clothed above and beneath with uniform decumbent 

 greyish hair. 



It is long, narrow and parallel-sided. The clypeus is rather 



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