52 Mr. F. P. Pascoe 07i new Genera and 



transversis, ultimo rotundato ; prothorace rugoso, lateribus folia- 

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

 miiioribus ; scutello parvo ; elytris striato-punctatis, seriatim 

 tuberculatis, tuberculis iuterioribus quatuor, quorum tribus majo- 

 ribus, marginibus externis serratis, apicibus divergentibus. Long. 

 l|-2 lin. 



Hah. Auckland (Tairoa). 



Adelium huJlatum. 



A. nitide iiigrum, vel subnigTum ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter 

 punetatis, hoc trausverso, in medio leviter canaliculato, lateribus 

 rotundato, basi sat lato, angulis posticis subacutis ; scutello parv^, 

 transverso ; elytris elongato-cordatis, leviter irregulariter puneta- 

 tis, spatiis inter puncta Isevibus 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. proximum^ 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. proxi- 

 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. Amarosoma, 

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

 p. 483) ; his species,^!. stmuJans, is or was known to Austra- 

 lian entomologists as Adelium Jiarj^aloides j^hiio, ; 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. simulans, Redt. 



Salpingus hilunatus. 



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

 fuscis ; capite prothoraceque fortiter punetatis, hoc utrinque ro- 

 tundato, basin versus multo angustiore ; scutello transverso; elytris 

 confertim striato-punctatis, macula magna semilunari, ad siituram 

 contigua, ornatis ; corpore infra pedibusque fulvescentibus, vel 

 aliquando infuscatis. Long. 1-1 5 lin. 



Hob. Auckland. 



This species has quite the outline of our 8. cereus ; but it is 

 scarcely half the length {i. e. eight times less in bulk), and well 



