4.04, Mr. G. C. Champion on the Tenebrionidx 
Three examples. Closely allied to A. commodum, 
Pasc., and occurring at the same localities, but differ- 
ing from it in having the thorax closely and distinctly 
punctured, the elytra with rows of fine but distinct punc- 
tures placed upon almost obsolete strize (in A. commodum 
the striz are sharply cut and indistinctly punctured) ; the 
setiferous punctures on the elytra are less distinct than in 
A. commodum, and placed on the second, fourth, sixth, 
and eighth, instead of on the third, fifth, seventh, and 
ninth interstices. 
Adelium nodulosum, n. sp. 
Q. Rather elongate, narrow, moderately convex, pitchy-brown, 
the elytra obscure castaneous in their outer half, the entire upper 
surface with a brassy lustre and feebly shining; the oral organs, 
antenn, the base of the tibie, and the tarsi ferrugimous. Head 
somewhat flattened anteriorly, thickly and moderately finely 
punctured, the epistoma feebly arcuate-emarginate in front and 
limited behind by a well-defined groove ; antennz extending to a 
little beyond the base of the prothorax, the penultimate joints as 
long as broad ; prothorax as in A. tasmanicum, but more densely 
and more distinctly punctured ; elytra as in A. tasmanicum, but less 
rounded at the shoulders, with rows of fine, distinct, approximate 
punctures placed upon almost obsolete striz, the interstices flat, 
thickly, very distinctly punctate, and each with a series of feeble 
nodular elevations, which become more distinct and subtuberculiform 
towards the apex. Length 83, breadth 35 mm. 
Hab. ‘Tasmania—Launceston. 
One example. This insect closely resembles A. 
tasmanicum, but differs from it in the denser punctuation 
of the thorax, and in having a series of rather closely 
placed nodular elevations on each of the elytral interstices, 
these elevations becoming tuberculiform at the apex. 
From Brycopia tuberculifera (which has somewhat similar, 
but fewer, elevations on the elytra) it may be known by 
the more transverse and less prominent eyes, the much 
finer punctures of the elytral striz, the coarser punctures 
of the interstices, etc. The elytra are subtruncate at the 
base. 
Dryoria. 
Dinoria, Pascoe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), ii, 
p. 141 (1869). 
