species of the Oenus K^ox tin?,. 59 L 



clothed with fine, ratlier long, grey decumbent hairs, inter- 

 spersed witli a few longer erect hairs. 



It is elongate and moderately convex, with a large head, 

 very prominent eyes, and semicircular clypeus, which is 

 closely granulated. The forehead and pronotum are deeply 

 and closely punctured, the sides of the latter straight in 

 front and the angles right angles, strongly rounded behind 

 and the angles very obtuse. The elytra are strongly and 

 closely but not rugosely punctured, the costse rather in- 

 distinct and the epipleurse undeveloped. The pygidium is 

 clothed with long erect hair. The tront 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. 'J'he antennae are 10-joiiited, joints 3 and 6 longer 

 than 4 and 5. 



S ■ The body is much narrower in shape, the eyes larger, 

 and the clypeus smaller than in the female. 



Adoretus 7ni(s, sp. n. 



Fuscus, elytris brunneis, feraoribus abdomineque subtus pleruraque 

 testaceis : minutus, elongatus, setis griseis erectis et decumVjenti- 

 bus tequaliter vestitus, capite mirmte rugoso, clypeo semioirculari, 

 proDoto modice punctato, elytris rugose punctatis, absque costis ; 

 pygidio ubique erects pubescente. 



Long. 5'5-6 mm. ; lat. 3 mm. 



Ilab. Ceylon : Diyatalawa {T. Bainhrigge Fletcher, Sept. 

 1008). 



Daik brown, with the head and thorax nearly black, and 

 the femora and abdomen beneath generally yellow. 



It is a very small narrow-bodied species, moderately 

 thickly clothed with a rather rough grey pubescence, with 

 intermingled erect iiairs, the pygidium entirely clothed with 

 long erect hair. The head is finely and closely rugose, the 

 clypeus rather large and semicircular. The pronotum is 

 moderately closely jmnetured, the front angles slightly and 

 the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra are rugosely punc- 

 tured and devoid of costse and of lateral carinse. The front 

 tibia bears three marly equidistant teetii, the uppermost 

 feeble and placed near the middle. 'I'he longer claw of the 

 front and middle tarsi is minutely cleft, and tlie shorter claw 

 of the hind taisus is less than half the length of the longer 

 one. The antennae are h'ng, the third, fourth, and filth 



