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and legs glossy copper-brown, with niiimte scattered punctures; 

 tarsi and outer joints of the antenna} ferruginous. Length 

 Q)^ lines. 



Adelinm rujytum. 



A. gracile, piceo-fuscum ; prothorace apice parum emarginuto, basi 

 angustiorc; elytris oeneis, striatis, striis interruptis. 



Ilah. Yankee Jim's Creek. 



Pitchy brown, nitid ; head concave between the antennary 

 ridges, rather thickly punctured, front slightly raised between 

 the eyes ; clj^^eus tinged with steel-blue, deeply eniarginate, 

 the upper lip very short and narrow ; prothorax slightly trans- 

 verse, Avell rounded at the sides, narroAved at the base, very 

 minutely punctured ; scutellura rather narrowly triangular ; 

 elytra oblong, slightly rounded at the sides, a little depressed, 

 striate, the strife more or less interrupted, the intervals of the 

 stride Hattish and nearly impunctate, e])ipleurge indistinctly 

 punctured ; body beneath and legs dark brown, glossy ; tarsi 

 and outer joints of antennaj ferruginous. Length 7 lines. 



Adelinm commodum. 



A. gracile, nigrum; prothorace apice parum emarginato, basi baud 

 angustato ; elytris aeneis, tenuiter subpunctato-striatis. 



Hah, Tasmania. 



Black, subnitid ; head scarcely punctured, flattish in front 

 and above the eyes ; clypeus strongly eniarginate, somewhat 

 ferruginous, as well as the upper lip ; prothorax as long as 

 broad, apex slightly eniarginate, sides moderately rounded, 

 base rather broad, but less so than the apex, the disk very 

 slightly convex and scarcely punctured ; scutellum transverse ; 

 elytra slightly rounded at the sides, linely striate, the striae 

 with traces of punctures only, the intervals narrow, with an 

 indistinct punctuation ; epipleuraj of the elytra, body beneath, 

 and femora glossy reddish brown, with minute shallow punc- 

 tures ; tibiffi reddish ferruginous ; tarsi and antenna? paler, in- 

 clining to fulvous. Length 5 lines. 



Apasis. 



Mention angulis aiiticis rotundatiim. 

 Prothorax apice truncatus. 



Tarsi ant. in foem. art. tribus uitermediis obconicis ; omnes sublus 

 tomentosi. 



The type of this genus has a very different appearance from 

 any of the species oi' A deli um ; and therefore, in the absence 

 of anv verv salient differential character, T have been led to 



