. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 232 CETONIIN^, Genus XENOREODERUS, nov. Type, Oreoderus humilis, Gestro. Range. The Oriental Eegion. Body stout and compact, clothed with scales and hairs, some of Avhich form erect tufts upon the pronotum and propypidium. Clypeus moderately broad in front and strongly contracted before the eyes. Prothorax narrower than the combined width of the elytra, not bearing produced dorsal carinse anteriorly. 8cutellum moderately short. Terminal spiracles borne upon prominent tubercles at the hind margin of the propygidium. Legs moderately slender, the front t
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 232 CETONIIN^, Genus XENOREODERUS, nov. Type, Oreoderus humilis, Gestro. Range. The Oriental Eegion. Body stout and compact, clothed with scales and hairs, some of Avhich form erect tufts upon the pronotum and propypidium. Clypeus moderately broad in front and strongly contracted before the eyes. Prothorax narrower than the combined width of the elytra, not bearing produced dorsal carinse anteriorly. 8cutellum moderately short. Terminal spiracles borne upon prominent tubercles at the hind margin of the propygidium. Legs moderately slender, the front tibia armed with three strong teeth, tlie tarsi slender and the first joint of the hind tarsus equal in length to the second. I have detected no sexual differences in the specimens examined. This genus is intermediate in its chai'acters between Oreoderus and Dasyval/jus. Its species are probably rather numerous, Vahjvs py(jmceus, G. & P., being one of them. This species is quoted in the Munich Catalogue as inhabiting " India ; Its exact habitat was unknown to the original describers, but it was found by Dr. Schaum (see Ann. iSoc. Ent. Prance, 1844, p. ^99) to be a Malayan species. Key to the Species. Elytral scales uniform and evenly distributed, humilix, Gestro, p. 232. Elytral scales unevenly distributed occideiitalia, sp. n., p. 233. 213. Xenoreoderus humilis. Oreoderus humilis, Gestro,* Avn, Miis. Genoiri, (2) x, 1891, p. 863. Black, or nearly black, with the antenna; and legs reddish, and the body rather uniformly clothed above and below with greyish scales. The body is small but stoutly built and the legs are slender. The clyptus is bare and granular, rounded in front. The pro- thorax is about as long as it is wide at the base, bell-shaped, with the sides regularly curved and not contracted at the base, the hind margin strongly ronuded and the hind angles obtuse. There is a slight median Fiff. bi). groove bordered by a double vow nf brown Xenoreode
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