592 Mr. G. J. Arrow ooi the Cei/lonese 



joints nearly equal in length, the sixth about twice as long, 

 and tiie seventh minute. 



(J. The antennal club is very long. 



I have not seen a female. 



Adoretus suturalis, sp. n. 



Pallida flavus, sutura elj'trali late infuscata, prope scutellura paulo 

 dilatata, capita intra oculos prothoracisque disco plerumqiie etiam 

 infuscatis : elongato-ovatus, modice couvexus, iiudique tenuiter 

 griseo-pubescens, fortiter baud douse puuctatus, subnitidus. 



Long. 7-5-9 mm. ; lat. 4-4-5 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon: Wellawaya {E. E. Green, Nov. 1905); 

 Diyatalawa {T. B. Fletcher, Nov. 1908) ; Kelani Valley, 

 near Colombo {W. Braine)-, Anaradhapura (low country, 

 Oct. 1911, Calcutta Museum). 



Bright yellow, with the elytra! suture and usually also the 



forehead and the middle of the pronotum black or dark 



brown, the sutural line broad and dilated around the scutellum. 



The dark patches of the liead and thorax are sometimes 



.divided into two collateral masses. 



It is elongate-oval, moderately convex, strongly but not 

 densely punctured, somewhat shining and moderately closely 

 clothed with fine grey setaj, not closely decumbent. The 

 clypeus and forehead are coarsely granulated, the pronotum 

 deeply but not densely punctured, with the sides strongly 

 rounded, the front angles nearly right angles, and the hind 

 ano-les very obtuse. The elytra are strongly punctured, with 

 the costse indistinct and the epipleurse not developed. The 

 pygidium is clothed upon its apical part with long erect hair. 

 The front tibia bears three sharp teeth, the uppermost rather 

 nearer to tiie second than that is to the first. The longer 

 claw is minutely cleft on the front and middle feet, and the 

 shorter claw of the hind foot is extremely small. The an- 

 tennge are 10-jointed, joints 3-6 elongate. 



$. The clypeus is narrow and slightly flattened at its 

 front edge, and the eyes are very prominent. 

 $ . The clypeus is semicircular. 



Adoretus cehgistcr, sp. n. 



Pallide flavus, clypco tarsisqnc solum leviter rufescentibus : ovatus, 

 compacius, subnitidus, niinutissiitie ot i)arce albo-setosus ; capite 

 baud dense granubito, clypco seraicirculari, pronoto parco punc- 

 tato, angulis aniicis acutis, po^ticis nullis ; elytris leviter cos- 

 tatis, iutervallis irrogulariter puuctatis j abdominis segmentis 

 ventralibus medio tuberculatis. 



Long, 8-5-9 nun. ; lat, 4-5-5 mm. 



