482 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 
the inner portion of the eye ; prothorax impunctate, the sides expanded 
and well rounded, with the edges of the margins reflexed but only 
slightly thickened, the centre of the disk with two fovew, and behind 
these towards the posterior angle an irregularly curved impressed line 
on each side; elytra shortly ovate, convex, strongly striate, nine strie 
on each ; body beneath, legs, and antenne dark glossy brown. Length 
9 lines. 
Readily distinguished by its impunctate elytra, with their strongly 
marked simple strize. The clypeus is also peculiar. 
Adelium latum. 
A, late ovatum, cupreo-fuscum, nitidum ; prothorace latitudine elytrorum, 
marginibus haud dilatatis; elytris foveolatis et irregulariter lineato- 
punctatis. 
Hab. Australia. 
Rather broadly ovate, slightly convex, dark copper-brown, shining ; 
head slightly punctured ; the clypeus very short and transverse, scarcely 
extending beyond the insertion of the antenne ; prothorax as broad as 
the elytra, its apex scarcely narrower than the base, thinly punctured, 
and pitted with several large fovese, posterior angles not acute, the 
lateral margins not dilated, consisting merely of a thickened line ; 
elytra shortly ovate, having a few irregular lines of small punctures, 
here and there displaced by a broad fovea; body beneath and legs dark 
glossy brown. Length 5 lines. 
Remarkable for the breadth of the prothorax, and its moderately 
convex form. It should stand after A. licinoides, Kirby. 
Adelium congestum. 
A, elongatum, eeneo-fuscum; prothorace nitido, disperse et irregulariter 
punctato, marginibus haud dilatatis; elytris seriatim punctatis, inter- 
stitiis alternis interrupte lineato-elevatis, lineis nitidis. 
Hab, Victoria. 
Elongate, dark brassy brown ; head rugosely punctured; the clypeus 
very short and considerably thickened in front; prothorax shining, 
irregularly and rather coarsely punctured, not dilated at the sides, the 
base strongly incurved ; elytra oblong, a little broader than the pro- 
thorax, scarcely or only very slightly shining, seriate-punctate, the 
intervals between the alternate series with interrupted elevated shining 
lines, or, in other words, there are five pairs of punctured lines and 
four lines of short oblong ridges on each elytron; body beneath and 
legs dark glossy black. Length 43-6 lines. 
The sculpture of the elytra is sufficiently characteristic of this very 
distinct species. 
