of Coleopterous Insects, 525 



Prothorax laevissimus iiiger. Elytra disco longitudinaliter ele- 

 vate, subseriatim confertim punctate, bicarinato, margine expla- 

 nato laevissimo. 



Tribe. Uncertain.* 

 Genus. Adelium. Kirby. 



Hopii, A. nigro-aeneum, nitidumjthorace sublacunoso laevissimo : 

 elytris striatis : striis punctatis ; interst^tiis alternis subcate- 

 nulatis. 



Plate, xiv. Fig. 5, 

 Long. Corp. Lin. 8. 

 Descr, Corpus oblongum, supra nigro-aeneum, subtus atrum, 

 oitidum. Caput punctulis quibusdani sparsis anterius notatum: 

 nucha confertius punctata. Prothorax baud punctatus, utrinque 

 foveolis 2 vel 3 obsoletis, et unic^ magis distinct^ longitudinal! 

 subarcuata: lateribus valde rotundatis, margine explanato. Cole- 

 Optra ovato-oblonga striata: striis punctatis; interstitiis laevibus 

 alternis obsolete catenulatis. Tibice intus apud apicem aureo 

 hirtae. 



In honorem Reverendi Friderici Gul. Hope, insectorum col- 

 lectoris et indagatoris indefessi, huic speciei ab ipso communicata?, 

 Domen merito imposui. 



This species much resembles A. calosomoides (Linn. Tr. xii. 

 PI. xxii. fig. 2.) but is as big again. It is distinguished also by 

 having no puncta upon the prothorax, and very few, with the 

 exception of those on the nucha, upon the head. In the elytra 

 also the interstices of the striae are without puncta, and the alter- 

 nate ones are obsoletely catenulated. 



* Latreille places this genus in the second Family of his Helopii ( Families 

 Nat. 378.) but I suspect it rather belongs to the Blapsides, (Ibid. 375,) and to 

 a distinct family which I would name Adeliadoe, 



