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beautiful, I am quite unable to account for M. Lacordaire's 

 statement. It will be observed that in my description of 

 P. pallidus I mentioned its affinity to A. opalinus and its 

 differing in colour and in the structure of the claws. 



I^'OVAPL'S. 



N. Adelaides, sp. nov. Late oblongus ; sat nitidus ; subtus 

 dense rufo-hirsutus ; prothorace basin versus angustato, 

 margine basali integro ; elytris subpunctulato-striatis ; 

 scutello vix, vel obscure lineatim, punctulato. Long. 8f , 

 111.; lat. (elytrorum) 4i— 5 1. 

 Mas. capite cornu lato, erecto, apice leviter dilatato et 

 emarginato ; prothorace elytris latiori, medio a margine 

 anteriore fere ad basin late profunde impresso. 

 'Fern, capite baud tuberculato ; prothorace elytris angustiori, 



baud impresso. 

 Closely allied to iV. crassus, Shp., and differing from it 

 chiefly by the female having no tubercle on its head and no im- 

 pression on the front of the prothorax. The scutellum of 

 crassus is said to be " strongly punctured." In this insect the 

 extreme scuteliar puncturation I have seen is a line of punc- 

 tures following the shape of the scutellum a little within the 

 margins, but generally the scutellum has only traces of such 

 line or is smooth. The following are characters of JV. Adelaides 

 not mentioned by Dr. Sharp as possessed by N. crassus : — ■ 

 Pront margin of prothorax suddenly concave behind the 

 clypeal horn ; prothorax fringed all round with pale reddish 

 hairs, and pygidium similarly fringed round all its edges. The 

 thorax of the female as compared with that of the male is more 

 strongly punctured than I should from description judge it to 

 be in JST. crassus. In both sexes the prothorax is widest in front 

 of the middle, and is narrowed thence to the front and base, 

 but so that the actual front margin is less than half the width 

 of the base. 



I have seen a good many specimens taken in the Adelaide 

 district. 



N. striato-punctulatus, sp. nov. Late oblongus ; sat nitidus ; 

 subtus dense rufo-hirsutus ; prothorace basin versus minus 

 fortiter angustato, margine basali integro ; scutello con- 

 fertim rugose punctulato ; elytrorum disco antice sat 

 fortiter punctulato-striato. Long. 12^ 1., lat. 6i. 1. 

 Mas. capite cornu sat lato erecto, apice leviter dilatato et 

 emarginato ; prothorace elytris baud latiori, medio a 

 margine anteriori haudquaquam ad basin late profunde 

 impresso. 

 Eem. Latet. 



