collected in Australia and Tasmania. 4.03 
Adeliwm sp. (?) 
Hab. W. Australia—Albany. 
One specimen, perhaps an extreme form of A. lindense, 
Blackb., from Port Lincoln. 
Adeliwm commodum. 
Adelium commodum, Pasc., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(4), iii., p. 139. 
Hab. Tasmania—Hobart and New Norfolk. 
Not uncommon. Described from Tasmania. The 
entire upper surface is brassy in all the specimens 
received, Pascoe describes the insect as black, with the 
elytra eneous. 
Adelium tasmanicum, n. sp. 
Rather elongate, narrow, moderately convex, black or pitchy- 
brown, with a brassy lustre, feebly shining; the oral organs, 
antenne, the base of the tibiz, and the tarsi and coxe ferruginous. 
Head broadly flattened anteriorly, thickly and finely punctured, the 
epistoma arcuate-emarginate in front and limited behind by a well- 
defined groove ; antenne rather elongate in the male, about reaching 
the base of the prothorax in the female, the penultimate joints 
transverse, the apical one stout; prothorax as long as broad, 
truncate in front (as viewed from above), broadly and feebly 
emarginate at the base, slightly narrower at the base than at the 
apex, the sides a little rounded anteriorly, gradually and somewhat 
obliquely converging behind, the anterior angles rounded and 
declivous, the hind angles obtusely rectangular, the base obliquely 
foveate on either side, the surface closely, finely, distinctly 
punctured, and with a few widely-scattered setiferous impressions ; 
elytra about two and one-third times as long as the prothorax, and 
wider than it, feebly rounded at the sides, which are sharply 
margined anteriorly, a little flattened on the disc, with rows of fine, 
distinct, approximate punctures placed upon almost obsolete strix, 
the interstices flat, thickly and minutely. punctured, the second, 
fourth, sixth, and eighth with a few widely scattered setiferous 
impressions, the humeri very obtuse ; beneath thickly and finely 
punctured ; anterior tarsi with the four basal joints moderately 
widened in the male. Length 74—10, breadth 3—34 mm. 
Hab. Tasmania—Hobart and Launceston. 
