53 1 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



vix crenulatis latitudine majori ante medium posita, basi 

 late leviter triangulariter concavo, angulis posticis obtusis ; 

 mesothoracis scuto crebre sat fortiter punctulato, scutello 

 laevi ; elytris antrorsum in medio fortiter productis, modice 

 punctulato-striatis, interstitiis fere planatis fere ut striae 

 punctulatis ; autennis probhoracis basin attingentibus, apicem 

 versus sat fortiter incrassatis. 



£. Abdomine antice longitudinaliter concavo, parte concava 

 leviter strigosa. [Long. 4, lat. l\ lines. 



Distinguished from its described allies inter alia by its 

 testaceous-red antennae and legs. 



Victoria ; in the Alpine district. 



Adelium pustulosum, sp.nov. 



Minus nitidum ; supra fusco-cupreum vel obscure viride, corpore 



subtus pedibus antennisque nigro-viridibus, his extrorsum 



tarsisque vix picescentibus ; capite insequali sat fortiter 



punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo (postice 



quam antice haud multo) latiori, ruguloso, sat fortiter vix 



crebre punctulato, antice emarginato, postice truncato, 



lateribus fortiter rotundatis sat explanatis mox ante basin 



rectis, angulis posticis acute rectis ; elytris postice acuminatis 



vix striatis seriatim subtilius punctulatis, interstitiis fere 



planis pustulis numerosis nitidis seriatim instructis, basi 



humerisque sat soqualiter rotundatis, lateribus leviter arcuatis ; 



antennis sat elongatis, articulo 3° sequentibus 2 conjunctis 



longitudine a3quali. [L° n g- ^J-6, ^ a *- %5~%l lines. 



Owing to the presence of a depression on either side of the 



middle of the prothorax close to the base, the base viewed 



obliquely from in front appears bisinuate, though in reality it is 



exactly truncated. The row of conspicuous shining pustules or 



small round tubercles running down each elytral interstice forms 



a very distinctive character ; these pustules in some examples are 



almost obsolete in the front part of the interstices near the suture. 



