52 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and 



transversis, ultimo rotundato ; prothorace rugoso, lateribus folia- 

 ceis, trilobis, lobo anteriore tripartito, lobis duobus posticis multo 

 miiioribus ; scutello parvo ; elytris striato-punctatis, seriatim 

 tuberculatis, tuberculis interioribus quatuor, quorum tribus majo- 

 ribus, marginibus externis serratis, apicibus divergentibus. Long. 

 l|-2 liu. 



Hah. Auckland (Tairoa). 



Adelium hullatum. 



A. nilide nigrum, vel subnigrum ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter 

 punctatis, hoc transverso, in medio leviter canaliculate, lateribus 

 rotundato, basi sat lato, angulis posticis subacutis ; scutello parvo, 

 transverso ; elytris elongato-cordatis, leviter irregulai'iter puncta- 

 tis, spatiis inter puncta Igevibus ovatis, plurimis oblongis vel line- 

 aribus ; pedibus Isevigatis, nitidis ; corpora infra nitido, abdomine 

 reticulato-punctulato. Long. 7 lin. 



Hah. Otago. 



Adelium is a common Australian genus ; but it has not 

 previously been found in New Zealand. This species may be 

 placed after A. jyroximujn, although it is not closely allied. 

 The sculpture of the elytra is very distinctive (lines of fine 

 punctures embracing oval, oblong, and a few linear spaces, all 

 of a very irregular character). Seirotrana, to which A. jyroxi- 

 mum was referred, should, I think, be united to Adelium, 

 its principal character (the " contiguity " of the prothorax to 

 the elytra) being in some species rather difficult to determine, 

 although Lacordaire lays great stress on it. Aynarosoma, 

 Redt., is the same as my Pheloneis (Journ. of Entom. vol. ii. 

 p. 483) ; his species, A . siimdans, is or was known to Austra- 

 lian entomologists as Adelitim harjjaIoides,yVhite ; but White's 

 species is much less convex, with more parallel sides, and 

 larger. The two species should therefore stand as P. harpa- 

 loides, Wh., and P. sivudansy Redt. 



Salpingiis hilunatus. 



S. fuscus, subnitidus ; antennis articulis quatuor ultimis perfoliatis, 

 fuscis ; capite prothoraceque fortitor punctatis, hoc utrinque ro- 

 tundato, basin versus multo angustiore ; scutello transverso; elytris 

 confertim striato-punctatis, macula magna semilunari, ad suturam 

 contigua, ornatis ; eorpore infra pedibusque fulvescentibus, vel 

 aliquando infuscatis. Long. 1-1 5 lin. 



Hah. Auckland. 



This species has quite the outline of our S. cerexis ; but it is 

 scarcely half the length (/. c. eight times less in bulk), and well 



