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the interstices subconvex. Under surface black, nitid. Tarsi 

 piceous. 



599. — Adelium striatum, Pasc. Jovrn. of Ent. II., 

 page 481. 



600. — Adelium viridipenne. n. sp. 



Length 10 lines. 

 This species very closely resembles A. striatum, Pasc, and is 

 perhaps only a variety of that insect. It is more nitid, without 

 foveas in the middle of the thorax, and has the elytra entirely of 

 a blackish-green colour. 



601. — Adelium rugosicolle. n. sp. 



Length 8 lines. 

 ^e&e-mh\es A. plicigerum, Pasc. The thorax however is more 

 punctate, and vermiculately rugose, and the whole is of a more 

 decided copper coloar. 



602. — Adelium augurale, Pasc. Journ. of Enl. II, , 

 page 480. 



603. — Adelium scute llare, Pasc. Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 1869, page 134. 



604. — Adelium repandum, Pasc. Aim. Nat. Hist., 

 1869, page 137. 



605. — Adelium convexiusculum. n. sp. 



Length 6 lines. 

 Of a bronzy olive, nitid, convex, and ovate. Head finely 

 punctate, and a little rounded in front, with the suture of the 

 epistome semicircular. Thorax transverse, not broader at the 

 base than at the apex, finely punctate, foveate near the sides, and 

 subrugose, with the sides rounded, and the posterior angles acute 

 and slightly directed outwards. Elytra broader than the thorax 

 and not much longer than the width, with nine very fine punc- 

 tate striae on each elytron, the punctures mostly small but some- 



