600 On the Burmese Species of Adoretus. 



two strong but not very sharp teeth, and a third which is 

 minute and stands beyond the middle, but nearer to the 

 second than that is to the first. The tarsi are rather slender 

 and the claws not very long, the longer front and middle ones 

 cleft, and the shorter one of the hind foot more than half the 

 length of the other. The antenna is lO-jointed. 



^ . The longer front and middle claws are minutely cleft 

 at a little distance from the tip, and the pjgidium is large 

 and convex. 



? . The pygidium is very short and the abdomen very 

 convex. 



Adoretus tener, sp. n. 



PalHde flavus, setis albidis parco vestitus, elytrorum setis in seriebus 

 longitudinnlibus sat remotis ordiuatis : breviter ovatus, sat cou- 

 vexua, nitidus, capite baud dense granulato, clypeo semicirculari, 

 margine for titer elevate, oculis remotis, baud magnis ; pronoto 

 brevi, parce punctato, lateribus fortiter arcuatis, angulis anticis 

 acutis, posticis obsoletis ; scutello et clytris crebre sat minute 

 punctatis, nitidis, coslis parum distinctis ; pygidio miiuite punc- 

 tato, parce sat longe hirsute, tibiis auticis acute 3-dentatis, deuti- 

 bus incisura acuta divisis, tarsis gracilibus. 



Long. 8-5-9'5 mm. ; lat, 4*5-5 mm. 



Ilab. Tenassekim : Victoria Point {E. T. Atkhisoti, Aug. 

 1887). 



Pale yellow, shining, and thinly clothed with minute 

 whitish setie, those on the elytra arranged in not very close 

 longitudinal lines. 



It is very short and stout in form and moderately convex. 

 The head is not very broad nor the eyes very large. Tiie 

 clypeus is prominent, semicircular, with very strongly raised 

 nuirgin, and moderately sparingly granulated. The pro- 

 notum is short, rather sparingly punctured, with strongly 

 rounded sides, acute front angles and hind angles coinj)letcly 

 rounded away. The scutellum and elytra are rather closely 

 but not coarsely punctured, and the costte upon the latter are 

 not strong. The pygidium is finely punctured and thinly 

 clothed with moderately long iiair. Tlie front tibia is armed 

 with three short teeth, divided by acute notches, the tiiird 

 tooth ])laced about the middle of the tibia and nearer to the 

 second than that is to the first. All the tarsi are slender, the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft, aiul the 

 Biiorter claw of the hind foot is more than half the length of 

 the longer one. The eyes of the male arc larger than those 

 of the female. 



