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eyes are not at all prominent. The head is very broad behind. 

 The prothorax is convex, cupiiliform, truncate in front, without 

 projecting angles. The angles of the base are depressed and 

 sharply right angles ; the median line is lightly marked. The 

 posterior transverse impression is very near the base and decidedly 

 distinct. The elytra are oblong, a little narrower towards the 

 base than at the apex which is broadly rounded ; the sides are a 

 little arched. The surface is convex ; the striae are hardly marked, 

 and their place is taken for the greater part by lines of tolerably 

 separated punctures ; the suture is impressed. The piliferous 

 punctures of the margin are large, widely interrupted in the 

 middle. There is a complete row of piliferous punctures in the 

 middle of each of segments 3-5 of the abdomen. The ex- 

 ternal margin of the anterior tibise is furnished with three or four 

 small teeth. 



Length 15, elytra 7, breadth 5^ mm. 



Hab. — Roebuck Bay. One specimen (<^). 



Adotela frenchi, n.sp. 



Q. — Deep black, shining, the lower surface more polished than 

 the upper. Head smooth, rather flat between the antennae, (the 

 middle a little raised) ; vertex convex, and without any transverse 

 impression ; clypeus with the usual setigerous punctures on each 

 side, and half way between them another similar puncture ; the 

 clypeal suture finely impressed, ending on each side in a round 

 puncture placed behind and a little further from the margins of 

 the head than the lateral clypeal punctures ; behind these, and 

 still further towards the middle of the head, two smaller punctures, 

 one on each .side; the pre-ocular prominences large j eyes not promi- 

 nent ; sides of the head a little swollen behind them. Mandibles 

 short, thick, not longitudinally striate in the scrobe. Antennae 

 filiform, attenuate towards the apex, apical joint narrow, acumin- 

 ate. Palpi with last joint depressed and broadly truncate. 

 Labrum rounded on the sides and at the anterior angles, 

 the anterior margin deeply emarginate, with six large 

 setigerous punctures, lightly canaliculate in the middle. 



