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fovese are, in one of my specimens, connected with the upper 

 central one by impressed lines ; in another there are four or 

 five in*egular undefined depressions. 



Blepegenes*. 



Subfamily Adeliinjs. 



Caput exsertum, cnlmen siipraaiitennarium in spinaiu productum, 

 MfLviUce lobo iuteriore majore, subquadrato, apice dense fimbriato. 

 Protliorax apice truncatus. 

 Elytra costata, plica epipleurali ad humerum baud attingente. 



Head exserted, gradually narrower behind the eyes, the 

 antennary ridge prolonged into a nearly erect, slightly recurved 

 spine ; clypeus very thick, rather suddenly bent down ante- 

 riorly, its apex emarginate, separated from the front by two 

 fine oblique lines not meeting in the middle. Eyes transverse, 

 narrow, entire. Antennte filiform ; the scape obconic, the third 

 joint not so long as the fourth and fifth together, thickened at 

 the tip, the rest to the tenth subequal, obconic ; the eleventh 

 not dilated, longer than the preceding joint. Mentum very 

 narrow at the base, spreading and rounded at the sides and 

 anteriorly ; lower lip transverse, bilobed, its palpi small. 

 Maxilla? small, densely fringed, the inner lobe larger than the 

 outer and unarmed ; their palpi slender, the basal joint elon- 

 gate, the last securiform. Prothorax depressed, sjjined at the 

 sides, apex narrowed, truncate, posterior angles obliquely 

 truncate. Elytra oblong-ovate, costate, flat above ; epipleura 

 terminating before the apex, the epiplem-al fold slightly sinuate, 

 not extending to the shoulder. Legs rather long 5 femora and 

 tibise slightly compressed ; tarsi slender, the anterior in the 

 males rather strongly dilated, the penultimate joint of all sub- 

 bilobed. Sterna and abdomen as in Adelium and Atryphodes. 



Although this genus has the subbilobed tarsi oi Adelium, its 

 affinity appears to me to be \\Q2iYex Atryphodes, on account of 

 its costate elytra, only slightly sinuate epiplcural fold, and 

 habit ; in the latter respect it approaches Atrypliodes egerius. 

 It is among the most remarkable genera of Tenebrionidte. 

 The earliest specimens of this species which I saw were stated 

 to be from Queensland ; Dr. Howitt, however, gives Kiama as 

 the habitat of the individuals he has kindly sent me. 



* This genus, with its type, was shortly described by me and published 

 in the Proc. Ent. Soc. for April 18G8. From some en-or, " Cli/pciis valde " 

 was printed " Clypeus hand.'' M. Preudhomnie de Borre some time after 

 published a description of the same species, in the ' Annales' of the Uel- 

 gian Entomological Society, imder the name of Cer adelium unnattou. 



