590 Mr. G. J. Arrow on the Ccylonese 



and differs from that and most other Adoreti in tlie rnfrose 

 elytra, the usual paired rows of punctuies and close-set 

 interstitial puncturatiou being quite absent. 



Adoretf/s fei/iinalis, sp. n. 



Bnmneus, protlioracis lateribiis elyi-rorumque lateribus vel superficie 

 tota flavescentibus ; sat breviter ovatus, crebre et minute punc- 

 tatus, undique regulariter sat deuse setosus. 



Long. 9-5-10 mm. ; lat. 5-5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon : Kandy {Gi/hs, 190,5) ; Peradeniya {E. E. 

 Green, Nov. 1910) ; Colombo {Green, March 1905). 



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

 the whole of the elytra paler. It is rather short and ovate 

 and entirely clothed witii moderately dense, short, uniform 

 greyish setaR. The clypeus is semicircular and granulated, 

 the forehead is strongly and ratlier rugosely punctured, and 

 the pronotum is sliort, moderately closely and finely punc- 

 tured, with the front angles right angles and the hind angles 

 rounded off. Tlie scutellum and elytra are closely and 

 distinctly punctured, the costaj upon the latter are narrow 

 and distinct and the epipleurge are not continued behind. 

 The pygidium is shallowly pitted or punctured and clothed 

 with sctte, which are erect only at the apical part. The sides 

 of the metasternum are strongly punctured. The front tibia 

 is armed with three acute equidistant teeth, the longer claw 

 of the front and middle feet is cleft, and tlie shorter claw of 

 the hind foot is more than half the length of the other. The 

 antennae consist of ten joints, the third to the sixth pro- 

 gressively diminishing in size. 



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

 is very minutely cleft. 



Adoretuiy infans, sp. n. 



Pallide teBtaceus, capite, pronoto tarsisque rufcsccntibus : eloiiga- 

 tu8, modice convexus, undique sat crebre griseo-setosus, setis 

 tenuis, baud brevibus, decumbentibus, nonnuUis longioribua 

 erectis interspersis ; corpora supra fortiter sat crebre punctato, 

 clypeo semicirculari, granulate. 



Long. 8-5-10 mm. ; lat. 4-4-5 mm. 



ilah. Ceylon : Eppawela (North Central Prov., E. E. 

 Green, Sept. 1905). 



Pale testaceous, witli the head, pronotum, and tarsi 

 reddish, strongly and closely punctured above, and thickly 



