Species of the G^e/ms Adoretus. 593 



Hah. Ceylon : Aniiradhapnra, low country (Oct. 1911, 

 Calcutta Museum). 



Pale yellow, witli tlie clypeus and tarsi alone sliglitly 

 reddish. Rather broadly ovate and depressed, with the 

 surface shining, and bearing only very sparse and minute 

 white sette. Tlie head is granulated, iDut not densely, and 

 the clypeus is semicircular. The pronotum is sparingly 

 punctured, strongly rounded at the sides, with the front angles 

 acute and the hind angles completely rounded off. The 

 elytral cost£e are distinct, the intervals not densely punctured 

 and the epipleurse not evident. The pygidium is clothed 

 with moderately long erect setae. The abdominal segments, 

 except the first and last, have each a conical protuberance in 

 the middle. The front tibia bears three sharp teeth, the 

 second nearer to the third than to the first and divided from 

 it by an acute notch. The longer claw is cleft in the front 

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

 more than half the length of the longer one. The antennae 

 are 10-jointed, the third to fifth joints progressively dimin- 

 ishing, the sixth rather broad. 



$ . The clypeus is smaller and the eyes more prominent 

 than in the female. The abdomen is much contracted and 

 hollowed, the ventral tubercles are sharply pointed and that 

 of the penultimate segment large and prominent. 



? . The abdomen is convex, the ventral tubercles are 

 broader and not sharply pointed, and that of the penultimate 

 segment is almost absent. 



Adoretus corpulentusy sp. n. 



Pallida flavus, clypeo tarsisque solum leviter rufescentibus : breviter 

 ovatus, convexus, nitidus, minutissime et parce albo-setosus, 

 capita baud dense grauulato, clypeo semicirculari, pronoto parce 

 punctate, angulis anticis fere rectis, posticis nuUis ; elytris eat 

 minute, haud dense puuctatis, liueis geminatis distinctis. 



Long. 8*5-10 mm. ; lat. 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon: Trincomali {E. E. Green, Sept. 1910). 



Pale yellow, with the clypeus and tarsi alone reddish, 

 Very short and stout, with the surface shining, and bearing 

 only very sparse minute setse. The head is large and the 

 eyes rather small, the clypeus semicircular and, with the 

 forehead, sparingly granulated, and the vertex smooth in the 

 middle. The pronotum is sparingly punctured, the front 

 angles nearly right angles, and the hind angles conn)letely 

 rounded off. Tiie elytra are rather finely but not densely 

 punctured, with distinct double lines of punctures, not 



Ann. ds MaQ. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xiii. 10 



