Tencbrionida3//'om Australia and Tasmania. I'l 



above, two below) ; ])rotliorax oblong, sli<^litly broader than the 

 elytra, sides moderately rounded anteriorly, then nearly strai<^ht, 

 but narrowing posteriorly, near the base rounded, and then 

 suddenly contraeted and ])assing into the usual acute basal 

 angle ; no toliaceous margin, the two lateral diseoidal lines 

 broken up and irregular, but varying in ditFerent individuals; 

 seutellum transverse, scarcely below the level of the adjacent 

 part of the elytra ; the latter considerably more than twice the 

 length of the prothorax, and with a bronze tint, their costa3 

 equal ; body beneath and legs glossy brownish black, the first 

 two abdominal segments with a more or less decided broad 

 longitudinal depression. Length 9 lines. 



A very narrow form, without foliaceous margins to the ])ro- 

 thorax, and in these respects leading to Otrintns. The frontal 

 fovea? are, in one of my specimens, connected with the upper 

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

 five irregular undefined depressions. 



Blepegenes*. 



Subfamily Adeliin.^. 



Caput exsertum, cnlmen supraantennarium in spinam productum, 

 Maxillce lobo interiore majore, subquadrato, aj)ice dense fimbriato. 

 Prothorax apice tmncatus. 

 Ehjtra 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. Antenna? 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 miarmed ; their pal])i slender, the basal joint elon- 

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

 sides, apex narrowed, truncate, posterior angles obliquely 



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

 in the Proc. Ent. Soc. for April 1808. From some en-or, " Clypeus vakle'^ 

 was printed " Clypeus haud. M. Preudhonime de Boire some time after 

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

 gian Entomological Society, under the name of Ceradclium ormatum. 



