Species of the Genus Adoretua. 507 



\six.jlavescens. 



Elytris flavescontibus, vitta suturali obscura, clypeo, pronotique 

 medio et lateribas etiam pleruoique pallidis. 



Hah. Miuhla (Comotto, 18S:3). 



Dark biowu, witli the sides ot" the pronotum, the sternum, 

 femora and tibia3, and parts of the abdomen jellovvisli. Tlie 

 elytra are minutely sprinkled with the same colour and the 

 sides generally vaguely paler. It is moderately thickly 

 clothed with decumbent seta?, which are rather unevenly 

 disposed upon the elytra, leaving very minute bare intervals, 

 and there are a very tew longer erect sette near the sides. Tlie 

 body is moderately elongate and parallel-sided, and rather 

 depressed, with the head broad, the clypeus semicircular and 

 finely granulated, and the forehead coarsely punctate-rugose. 

 The pronotum is short, coarsely and closely punctured, with 

 the sides rounded, the front angles nearly right angles and 

 the hind angles very obtuse. The scutellum is strongly 

 punctured, the elytra densely and confluently, and the costge 

 rather indistinct. The pygidium is finely coriaceous and 

 clothed with rather long erect iiair. The antennte are 10- 

 jointed, joints 3 to 7 regularly decreasing in size. The legs 

 are rather slender, but the hind tarsi a little shortened and 

 thickened. The front tibia? bear three sharp teeth, the upper- 

 most not reaching the middle, minute and separated by a 

 sharp notch from the preceding one. The longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet is cleft, and the shorter one of the 

 hind foot more than half as long as the other. 



(^ . The front tibia is much more slender than that of the 

 female and the teeth shorter and sharper, the eyes are larger, 

 the abdomen rather long and distinctly arched, and the 

 pygidium very i)rominent and convex. 



$ . The form is shorter and less parallel-sided, theej'es are 

 smaller, the abdomen is short and very convex, and the 

 pygidium almost concealed. 



Y'AX.flavescens. — The elytra are yellow, except a vaguely 

 defined dark sutural stripe of varying size, and the clypeus 

 and the middle, as well as the sides, of the pronotum are 

 generally pale also. 



The specimens of this variety, of which I have seen a 

 considerable series taken by Comotto at Minhla, are all of 

 rather smaller size than the typical form. 



