BY H. J. CARTER. 



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minutely punctulate, the fifth interval feebly raised. Suture 

 depressed throughout and triangularly so behind scutellum. 

 Epipleurae minutely, two apical segments of abdoraen more dis- 

 tinctly and closely punctulate. Intercoxal process truncate and 

 split in front. Under surface generally smooth and metallic. 

 Intermediate tibiae bowed, others straight. Dimensions — 14 x 6 

 mm. 



Hah. — Sea Lake, North- West Victoria. 



Three specimens, male, with strongly transverse front tarsi, 

 have been sent me by that enthusiastic collector, Mr. J. C. Goudie, 

 after whom I have named it. A typical member of my Sect.i.A., 

 and closely allied to A. Lindense Blackb., it is sufficiently differ- 

 entiated by its combination of lustrous bronze colour (as A. 

 ellipticum Blackb.), with dentate rectangular hind angles to pro- 

 thorax (as A. Hackeri Cart.), and nearly smooth pronotum (as A. 

 auratnin Pasc). 



Adelium Sloaneii, n.sp. (Text-fig. 10). 



Elongate-ovate, shining metallic bronze above, antennse, palpi 

 and tarsi concolorous, bronze-black beneath, highly polished. 



Head: labrum prominent and punctulate, epistoma subtruncate, 

 nearly flat, clearly defined behind by semicircular suture, 

 and together with the forehead coarsely and irregularly 

 , punctured; part behind the eyes only minutely so. 

 Antennal orbits punctured like the forehead, separated 

 from it by deep suture, and bearing on it a long dis- 

 tinct foveate impression. Eyes large and projecting; 

 antennae extending beyond the base of prothorax, 

 stout, third joint less than fourth and fifth combined, 

 joints 7-10 obconic and wider than preceding, eleventh 

 ovoid-acuminate. Prothorax convex, transverse (2*5 

 x4mm.), widest behind the middle, base slightly 

 wider than apex, apex subtruncate (seen from 

 above), anterior angles scarcely advanced and obtuse, 

 sides widely rounded, abruptly sinuate towards base, 

 posterior angles prominent and rectangular; base trun- 

 cate; the whole narrowly bordered with smooth uptujae^;-; 



Fig. 10. 



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