588 Mr. G. J. Arrow on the Ceylonese 



Hah. Ceylon : Trincomali {E. E. Oreen, Sept. 1910) ; 

 N'nmnai {E. E. Green, May 1909). 



A pair from the Pusa Research Institute collection are 

 labelled "Calcutta ( C. E, Preseley, 12th Oct., 1909) '' ; but 

 I rather hesitate to accept this locality without further 

 coiitirniation. 



Brown, densely clothed with decumbent grey setse, which 

 form alternate denuded and densely covered patches upon 

 the elytra. The ai)ical protuberances of the hitter are promi- 

 nent and slightly tutted, and there are two strong tubercles 

 upon the pygidiuin before the extremity, which bear thick 

 tufts of wliite setas. 



It is small and narrowly elongate, densely and rugosely 

 punctured above and beneath. The head is large, witii 

 prominent eyes and broadly semicircular clypeus. The sides 

 of the pronotum are moderately roundeil, the front angles 

 sliu'litly acute, and the hind angles veiy obtuse. The elytral 

 efjipleuraj are not developed. The legs are rather short, the 

 hind pair very short and thick. The front tibia is armed 

 with three short teeth, the uppermost further from the second 

 than that is from the first and separated by a rather sharp 

 notch. The larger claw is minuttly cleft in the front and 

 middle feet, and the shorter claw of the hind foot is less than 

 lialf the length of the longtT one. The antenna? are 10- 

 jointed, joints 4 to 6 nearly equal in length. 



$. The teeth of the front tibia are very small. The 

 tufts of the pygidium are very prominent, aud there is a 

 well-marked, smooth, denuded area between them and the 

 apex. 



Adoretus ermineus, sp. n. 



Omnino testaceus, supra crebre albo- aut flavo-sctosus et squamosus, 

 scutello elj-troruinque lateribiis et })arte apicali densissinie squa- 

 mosis, pygidio dense, corpore sublus magis laxe albo-hirsutis : 

 elongato-ovalis, couvexus. 



Long. 12-14 mm. ; lat. 5"5-7 mm. 



Uah. Ceylon: Madulsima {E. E. Green); Kalupahani, 

 near Haldummulle. 



Testaceous, thickly clothed above with white or pale 

 yellow scaly decumbent setse, which become gradually more 

 dense towards the hinder part of the elytr;i, and are extremely 

 dense upon the scutelbunand the outer margins of the elytra. 

 The pygidium is densely, and the lower surface of the body 

 and the legs are less densely, clothed with line hair. 



It is elongate-ovate and convex, with a close sculpturing 



