232 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, 



A single 5 specimen kindly lent me by Mi\ A. Sidney Olliff, 

 taken in the neighboui^iood of Wilcannia, N.S.W. Mr. Olliff, 

 has placed the specimen in the Australian Museum. 



Adotela carbonari a. 



Parroa carbonaria, Casteln. I.e. p. 174; Putz. Revis. 1873, 

 p. 340. 



De Castelnau's description is quite useless. The following is a 

 translation of M. Putzeys' remarks in his Revision : — 



Of a brilliant black like A. howitti. Last joint of the palpi 

 broad and truncate. Labrum rounded in front. Clypeus having 

 two strong longitudinal impressions which extend to the vertex. 

 Head less narrowed behind, which makes the eyes more promi- 

 nent. Prothorax like that of A. concolor, but a little more 

 rounded on the sides. Elytra similar but more narrowed and 

 even acuminate behind. 



Length 16, elytra 9, breadth 6 mm. 



Bab. — Swan River. 



Adotela carenoides." 



A. carenoides, Putz. Revis. 1873, p. 341. 



Of a beautiful purple, more metallic on the under surface, upper 

 surface sometimes dull in 5. Head not convex ; clypeus with a 

 strong rugulose fovea on each side ; two other light rather oblique 

 impressions on the forehead behind these fovese ; the clypeal 

 suture distinct ; eyes round, not very prominent. Labrum with 

 a median sulcus, rounded at the sides, anterior edge corneous, 

 lightly emarginate. Prothorax subcordate, transverse (5^ x 6 mm.), 

 subconvex, rounded on the sides, a little narrowed in front, shortly 

 narrowed behind ; the base wide ; marginal border wide and thick 

 on the sides, slightly advanced at the anterior angles, strongly 

 sinuate in front of the base, not conspicuous on the base ; the 

 basal angles right angles ; median line lightly impressed, termi- 

 nating behind considerably in front of the base in a transverse 

 linear impression, this more decided towards the sides ; dorsal 

 surface covered with faint transverse scratches. Elytra broadly 



