480 Mr. F. P. Paseoe on some netv or little-Jcnown 



long or roundish tubercles. The other characters are nearly the same 

 in both species. Length 9 lines. 



Adeliiim* augurale. 



A. viridi-aeneum ,• prothorace utrinque rotundato, modice emarginato, 

 vermiculato-pimctato ; elytris interrupte costatis, punctis numerosis 

 impressis. 



Hab. Queensland. 



Dark gi'eenish bronze^ in other respects resembling A. porcatum, but 

 the punctures on the head and prothorax deeper and more crowded, on 

 the latter especially running together and leaving vermicular spaces in 

 the intervals ; on the elytra the alternate ridges are considerably less 

 elevated, or, rather, are hardly to be recognized as ridges, being more 

 or less tubercular, the punctures more numerous and less confined to 

 the striae, the general surface also most minutely gTanulate, but without 

 the small glabrous points visible in A. porcatum ; body beneath and 

 legs chalybeate blue or green. Length 6 lines. 



I have seen only one specimen of this species. 



Adelium succisum. 



A. viridi-aeneum ; prothorace marginibus subfoliaceis, pone medium subito 

 descrescente ; elytris ovatis, irregulariter impresso-punctatis, punctis ap- 

 proximatis, aliquando connexis, punctis minoribus dispersis ; antennis 

 filiformibus. 



Hah. Victoria. 



Dark greenish bronze ; head roughly punctured ; prothorax trans- 

 verse, the sides slightly foliaceous, gradually broader for about two- 

 thirds of its length, then suddenly narrowing to the base, the disk with 

 obscure punctiform impressions principally at the sides ; elytra ovate, 

 the shoulders nearly obsolete, covered with numerous punctiform im- 

 pressions, some of which unite, and having smaller pimctures in the 

 intervals ; body beneath black, very glossy, the segments on each side 

 with a V-shaped impression ; legs black, shining. Length 6-8 lines. 



Narrower than A. porcatum, which, however, is by no means its 

 nearest ally, and well distinguished by the peculiar angularity of the 

 sides of the prothorax, which look as if broken off posteriorly. 



Adelium vicarium. 

 A. fusco-aeneum ; prothorace marginibus rotundatis, modice dilatatis ; 

 elytris anguste ovatis, seriatim impresso-punctatis ; antennis apicem 

 versus crassioribus. 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



Dark bronze ; head punctured anteriorly, the vertex impunctate ; 



* Kirby, Trans. Liuu. Soc. xii. p. 420 ; Lacordaire, Gen. v. p. 437. 



