Species of the Genus Adoretus. 595 



Adoretus vitticauda, sp. n. 



Bninneus, leviter metallico-suffusus, setis flavescentibus decurn- 

 bentibus ineqiialiter vestitus, elytrorum maculis donsioribus et 

 denudatis longitudinaliter ordinatis fasciculisque ante apicem 

 transverse dispositis, pygidio trivittato. 



Long. 9 mm. ; Lit. 4*5 mm. 



Hah. Tenasserim : Papun {CoL Adamson) ; Pegu : 

 Palon {L. Fea, Sept. 1887) : SlAM. 



Brown, witli the up{)er surface suffused with a slight 

 nietiiUic lustre^ and clothed witli unevenly distributed 

 decumbent yellowish set*, forming longitudinal rows of 

 alternately bare and densely setose spots upon the elytra. 

 Across the apical calli there is a transverse series of tufts of 

 still closer and longer seta3, and the pygidium bears three 

 similar tufts in a transverse low far apart. 



It is elongate-oval and not very depressed. The head is 

 closely punctured, with a lightly punctured shining area in the 

 n)iddleof the forehead, and theclypeus is small and semicircular. 

 The eyes are large and prominent. The pronotum is strongly 

 and densely but unevenly punctured, with the sides strongly 

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

 angles very obtuse. The scutellum and elytra are closely 

 punctured, and the costse of the latter almost obsolete. The 

 extremities of the elytra are daik, opaque, and thinly setose, 

 and the calli are prominent. The front tibial are broad and 

 sharply tridentate, the hind legs extremely short, and the 

 hind tibise inflated. The longer claw of the front and middle 

 feet is very minutely cleft at the aj^ex, and the shorter claw 

 of the hind feet is reduced to a minute vestige. The antenna? 

 are 10-jointed, the fourth and fifth joints short, and the third 

 and sixth longer. 



<^ . The eyes are larger than in the female. The teeth of the 

 front tibia are sharply pointed, the first and second separated 

 by an acute notch, the third excessively short. 



? . Tiie teeth of the front tibia are strong and close 

 together. 



This is nearly related to A. compressus, Wiede., but differs 

 in the more conspicuous white tufts at the extremity of the 

 elytra and the pygidium, and also in the toothing of the 

 front tibia, &c. 



Adoretus serratipes, sp. n. 



Omnino fuscus, brevissime aequaliter griseo-setosus, eloiigatus, con- 

 vexus, densissime sed baud minute punctatus, clj peo lato, margine 



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