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the eyes. Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, with 

 the hind margin straight, the front margin strongly prominent in 

 the middle, the sides dilated in the middle, the blunt hind angles 

 slightly rounded, the right-angled front angles in the c? scarcely, 

 in the $ more distinctly, produced; the surface closely covered 

 with large annular punctures and rather erect greyish-white hairs, 

 with longer erect bristles upon the anterior part of the disc and 

 in the encircling marginal furrow. The primary rows of punctures 

 are rather distinct upon the elytra, the primary costae almost 

 obsolete, in the $ more so than in the c? ; the surface is every- 

 where closely and confidently punctured, with short transverse 

 rugae between ; the apical calli only are smooth and bare, the 

 remaining surface rather thickly clothed with white hairs, amongst 

 which, upon the primary costae, are long erect white bristles ; the 

 epipleurae are very short and narrow. Pygidium moderately longp 

 and convex, closely, finely and rugosely punctured, clothed with 

 erect hair, and slightly prominent before the apex, which in the 

 c? is broadly truncated. Legs rather slender, front tibiae tri- 

 dentate, with the apical tooth exceedingly long in the $ and the 

 basal one almost obsolete in the c? , the middle tibiae scarcely, 

 and the hind tibiae a little, dilated, each with a sharp spiuose carina. 

 Eostrum quite indistinctly, shortly and finely carinate. Antenna! 

 club elongate in the tf 



" Length, 8-9 mm. ; breadth, 3'5 mm. 



" CEYLON : Kandy." 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



394. Adoretus gymnotopus. 



Cheetadoretus gymnotopus, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1914, p. 498,. 

 fig. 32. 



"Nearly related to A. cribratus, "White, but smaller, more 

 strongly dilated behind and more convex. Clypeus longer than 

 in A. cribratus, almost semicircular, with a highly reflexed black 

 margin, closely covered, like the head, with small ocellate and 

 confluent punctures. Thorax more sparingly covered with larger 

 ocellate punctures. Elytra with slightly prominent costae, and 

 everywhere closely covered with smaller confluent ocellate punc- 

 tures and fine transverse corrugations ; only a few small erect 

 white bristles upon the primary costae ; epipleurae short and 

 narrow. Pygidium rather long, with the apex rounded, closely 

 punctured, thickly clothed with long greyish-yellow hairs, which 

 are longer in the middle and form a tuft, between which and the 

 apex lies a round smooth shining spot. Legs slender, front tibiae 

 with three sharp teeth, the middle arid basal ones approximated ; 

 middle tibiae slender, with two slight sharp spinose carinae ; hind 

 tibiae only a little thickened, with one slight, short spinose carina- 

 Eostrum with a short fine carina ; labrurn not carinate. 



" Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, 4'5 mm. 



" BENGAL : Barway, Chota Kagpur." 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



