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sparingly punctured, but close to the sides there is also a narrow rugose band. The meta. 

 sternum, except in the middle, and the hind coxae are coarsely punctured, and sparingly 

 pubescent ; the ventral segments are smooth in the middle and very shining ; at the sides 

 each has some coarse punctuation bearing a row of coarse setae ; the side of each segment 

 at the base is purple. The legs are brilliant green, with the tarsi approaching to purple. 

 Of this beautiful species a single individual was found at Murree. 



POPILIA (Munich Cat.). 

 31. POPILIA CYANEA, Hope. 

 Sind Valley, August 1873. A dozen individuals. 



ADORETUS (Munich Cat.). 

 32. ADORETUS PLAGIATUS, Bunn. 



The species of Adoretus at the present moment are excessively difficult to name with 

 certainty : the specimens I here call A. plagiatus agree with Burmeister's description, but are 

 four-and-a-half or five lines long, instead of three-and-a-half.- The species may readily be 

 distinguished from A. nudiusculus by the deeply serrate margins of the lahrum ; the two species 

 are also a little different in colour, punctuation, and pubescence. 



Jhelam Valley, July 1873. 



33. ADORETUS NUDIUSCULUS, n. sp. 



Testaceus, clypeo ferrugineo, fronte fusca, nitidnla, parcius brevissimeque setostts ; 

 prothor ace fortiter punctato, lateribus subcrenulatis, angulis posterioribus omnino rotundatis ; 

 elytris obsolete costatis, fortiter punctatis. 



Long. 9^ mm., lat. 5|- mm. 



A short and moderately broad species. Head moderately large, rather coarsely and closely, 

 but not deeply, punctured. Labrum with narrow, but elongate, appendage, which is very 

 finely carinate along the middle; the margins of the labrum are only indistinctly crenu- 

 late, the basal portion is punctate, and bears short hairs. The thorax has the hinder angles 

 much rounded, the basal margins fine, but quite even throughout, being neither more nor less 

 strongly elevated at the sides than in the middle ; the side margin is indistinctly crenulate ; 

 the surface is rather coarsely, but not closely, punctured, the punctures are evenly distributed, 

 being about as numerous and distinct on the middle as at the sides. The elytra have three 

 indistinct longitudinal spaces free from punctures, and between these are moderately coarsely 

 punctured. 



This species is remarkable from the very slight development of the pubescence : it is 

 perhaps more nearly allied to A. nigrifrons than to any other species, but it is much smaller, 

 and the pubescence is much slighter. The only individual I have seen is no doubt a female ; 

 it has the legs quite short, the anterior tibire stout and tridentate. 



Jhelam Valley, July 1873. A single individual. 



