UY II. .1. CARTER. 1CT) 



Adblium delicatulum, n.sp. (Plato v., fig.21). 



Dark bronze (coppery on pronotal margins), glabrous, subnitid 

 above, very nitid beneath, antennae and tarsi castaneous. 



Head closely, evenly punctate, clypea] suture straight; an- 

 tennae extending to base of prothorax, joint 3 not as long as 4-5 

 combined, 6-9 subtriangular, 11 large and oval. Prothorax: 

 apex arcuate, base truncate, sides widely rounded, widest behind 

 middle, thence converging to the acute front angles, sinuately 

 narrowed behind, posterior angles rectangular: disc closely and 

 rather regularly punctate, with a few line ridges, a well-defined 

 medial furrow throughout and two defined fovea? at base, one 

 near each angle; explanate margins not clearly differentiated 

 from disc, but containing larger and more distant punctures. 

 Elytra wider than prothorax at base, shoulders rounded, taper- 

 ing rather finely at apex, each with nine interrupted stria 1 and 

 the sutural stria uninterrupted; the interruptions irregular; the 

 sixth stria more or less a series of punctures, intervals equal, flat 

 and smooth. Prostermum and epipleurae coarsely punctate, last 

 segment of abdomen thickly punctured, other segments smooth. 

 Male with anterior tarsi enlarged. Dimensions: SA-9x3^-4mm. 



Hob. — Brisbane, < A >. (Mr. H. W. Cox). 



Mr. Cox generously gave me a pair of the above some time 

 ago, when I erroneously diagnosed it as a var. of A. geminatum 

 Pasc. A close examination shows it to be very abundantly dis- 

 tinct, though its general form and elytra] sculpture are similar. 

 The differences are best shown by the following comparison. 

 A. gemi/natum. A. delicatulum,. 



Size larger; length, 10-12mm. smaller: length, 8|-9 mm. 



An/'-, n in joints subconic, no- subtriangular, '1 penultimate 



where transverse. joints (at least) transverse. 



Pronotum coarsely rugose- closely punctate (a few line 



punctate, with smooth spaces. ridges only), posterior angles 

 posterior angles acutely point- rectangular. 

 ing outwards. 



Elytra: alternate intervals intervals equal and flat, 

 wider ami con\ ex. 



Pro8tei'num smooth. coarsely punctate, 



