472 On Coleo2)tera from the Nilgiri Hills. 



It may be compared with A. ignicoUis, wliicli is as much 

 like it as any other species I know. I have only males 

 before me. 



The club of the antenna is remarkably long, being equal to 

 the width separating the eyes. The head is small, the clypeus 

 very much rounded, strongly margined ; the surface of the 

 liead coarsely irregularly punctured, uneven and rugose. 

 Thorax black and shining, sparingly punctate, the basal 

 margin obsolete except near the angles. Scutellum only very 

 finely punctured. Elytra with deep but irregular strise, 

 which are coarsely and irregularly punctured. Pygidium 

 rather large, elongate and vertical, not convex, coarsely 

 rather sparsely punctate, shining. Legs short; hind femora 

 very broad. Claw^s unequal, those on the anterior feet quite 

 short, the anterior of the two thick, and with a very short 

 division, which is scarcely separated from the body of the 

 claw ; on the other feet the claw is not divided. The abdo- 

 men is very short. 



Ootacamund (C. A. Barher, no. 213) ; apparently rare. 

 In the collections of the British Museum and the Cambridge 

 Museum. 



The elytra are obscure reddish in one of the British Museum 

 examples. 



Adoretus ovaUs, Blanchard. 



Fusco-iiiger, antennis testaceis, pedibus rufo-sordidis ; tenuiter 

 breviterque pallide setosus, nuUo modo squamosus ; elytris obso- 

 lete tricostatis. 



Long. 12-13 mm. 



One of the most obscure species of the genus, destitute of 

 any salient character, and with only a slight difference 

 between the sexes. Mr. G. J. Arrow considers the specimens 

 here described to be A. ovah's, Blanch. (Cat. Coll. Ent. p. 233), 

 and as there is nothing in Blanchard's brief description to 

 contradict this, and as the locality agrees, this determination 

 may be accepted, though I at first thought that the species 

 was undescribed. 



Upper surface somewhat shining, rather finely and indefi- 

 nitely subrugosely punctate, clothed with scanty, short, 

 pallid, adpressed hairs, none of which are at all like scales. 

 Clypeus rather narrow, eyes only moderately large. Thorax 

 short, in the male a little, in the female strongly narrowed in 

 front ; basal margin fine, distinctly sinuate on each side of 

 the middle. Elytra with a scarcely perceptible metallic 

 shinnner and each with three very fine and faint costae. 



