. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 284 It is iiioderately elongate in shape, and clothed above and beneath with rather coarse white setae. The head is rugosely punctured, with the ch'peus rather smooth, shining and almost without setx. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, strongly rounded at the sides, with tlie front angles acute and the hind angles rounded off. The elytra are coarsely and closely punc- tured, with moderately well-marked costce. The pygidium is finely coriaceous aud clothed with uniform, sliort, erect setae. The teeth of the front tibia are large and sharp.
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 284 It is iiioderately elongate in shape, and clothed above and beneath with rather coarse white setae. The head is rugosely punctured, with the ch'peus rather smooth, shining and almost without setx. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, strongly rounded at the sides, with tlie front angles acute and the hind angles rounded off. The elytra are coarsely and closely punc- tured, with moderately well-marked costce. The pygidium is finely coriaceous aud clothed with uniform, sliort, erect setae. The teeth of the front tibia are large and sharp. d'. The eyes are larger than in the female, the clypeus more deeply notched, and the pygidium is longer, more exposed and nearly smooth and bare at the apex. Length, 10-10-5 mm.; breadth, 4-5-5 mm. Bengal : Pusa (June). Taken by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher at Fig. 62.~ScJ/i~a- dorcius riifeaccns. Genus PH^ADORETUS. Fhceadoretus, Reitter, Verb. Nat. Yer. Briimi, xli. 1903, p. 31 ; Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1912, p. 268. Type, Adoretus comptus, Men. Range. Turkestan, Persia, Baluchistan, 8ind, Elongate-oval, clothed above and beneath with minute white setse. Head rather narrow, with the eyes not large or pro- minent. Clypeal margin strongly reflexed and produced in front into two rounded lobes which, with the rounded sides, give the effect of a fourfold division. Anteiinse 10-jointed, with the club moderately long. Labrum broad, vertical, without a median process. Mandibles meeting one another, blunt at the extremity, without teeth. Maxilla terminating in three strong teeth ; palpus long, with the terminal joint broadly oval. Mentum short, broad, very prominent beneath, with the ligular part very broad and 4-lobed in front, and the palpi short. Elytra long, covering the pygidium. Legs moderately long, the front tibia armed with three teeth, the second much nearer the first than the third. S ⢠The pygidium is convex, but rather short, and the abdomen is nearly straigh
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