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389. Adoretus fusciceps, sp. nov. (Plate V, figs. 30 & 31.) 



Testaceous yellow, with the clypeus dark red, the forehead and 

 vertex nearly black, the pronotum with an indefinite reddish 

 patch on each side, and the tarsi reddish. 



It is oblong, rather elongate, moderately convex, and very 

 closely and evenly clothed all over with very fine decumbent grey 

 hairs. The head is moderately large, with the clypeus rather 

 short, closely studded with minute granules and its front margin 

 evenly rounded ; the forehead and vertex are densely rugosely 

 granulated. The pronotuin is finely and densely punctured, with 

 the sides straight in front, the front angles acute and the hind 

 angles completely rounded away. The scutellum is closely 

 punctured, and the elytra are closely pitted, the intervals minutely 



punctulated and the costse rather well marked ; the epipleurae are 

 not complete. The pygidium is closely clothed with very short 

 and almost uniform hairs. The front tibia is armed with three 



very strong but not sharp teeth, the longer front and middle 

 claws are minutely cleft at the extremity, and the shorter hind 

 claw is about half the length of the longer one. 



c? . The pygidium is very convex and the longer front claw 

 very unequally cleft. 



Length, 11*6 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



BUBHA : Tharrawaddy (G. Q. Corbett). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is extremely similar to A. caliginosus, Burm. It is a little 

 less convex and cylindrical, and the head is rather larger in pro- 

 portion. The prothorax is less distinctly darkened, but there is 

 generally a vaguely darker patch on each side of the middle. The 

 bifurcated sedeagus of the male enables it to be distinguished at 



390. Adoretus caliginosus. 



Adoretus caliginosus, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 471. 

 Adoretus nudostriatus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 482, 

 fig. 14 (new syn.). 



Ferrugineous red or reddish testaceous, usually with the head 

 and pronotum (or the middle of the latter) darker ; the vertex 

 of the head black. The entire surface is closely and evenly 

 clothed with exceedingly minute decumbent grey setae. 



It is convex and cylindrical in shape, moderately elongate, with 

 the head not very broad and the eyes of moderate size only. The 

 head is densely granulated all over and the clypeus almost semi- 

 circular. The pronotum and scutellum are extremely finely and 

 densely punctate-rugose, the former rounded at the sides, with 

 the front angles acute and Ihe hind angles entirely rounded off 

 The elytra are closely punctured and their costaB scarcely elevated, 

 but fairly well-marked and not very narrow. The pygidium is 

 clothed with setae, which are erect but extremely short. The 



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