Tenebrionida^ //v>/yt Aitstr<th'<i and I'dsiiKinui. 17 



Dark copper-bnnvn ; licad Hncly and irregularly punctured; 

 prothorax with minute shallow ])uiietures, its lateral margins 

 paler; scutellum small, transverse ; elytra nearly Hat above, 

 each with seven rows ot" small ])nnetures, the two outer on the 

 epipleural line, the inner bordering the suture, the four inter- 

 mediate lines placed in pairs, each pair and the sutural and 

 marginal rows separated by a line of oblong impressed rings ; 

 the disk bordered with yellowish ; body beneath and legs very 

 glossy brown ; antennse and tarsi ferruginous, the latter very 

 slender, filiform. Length 4-5 lines. 



Closely agreeing in form with C. deplanata., Boisd., but very 

 distinct on account of the peculiar sculpture of the elytra. In 

 my description of the genus Goripera the term epipleura was 

 by some oversight used to express the epipleural fold, which, 

 although narrow, is well marked and extends along the whole 

 length of the epipleura ; the latter is nearly vertical. 



After the following additions have been made to the genus 

 Adelium of Kirby*, there remain a few species, the types ap- 

 parently of as many genera related to it, but differentiated by 

 characters which will not allow them to be conjoined. We find 

 that there are three characters which seem to belong without 

 exception to the Adelia^ viz. the tarsi tomentose beneath, their 

 penultimate joints subbilobed, and the eyes transverse, naiTow, 

 and more or less impinged on by the antennary ridges ; a 

 secondary character, because there are cases in which it be- 

 comes scarcely recognizable, is the emarginate apex of the 

 prothorax. The subbilobed form of the tarsi is the most per- 

 manent of all, and is absent from none of the new genera here 

 recorded. The mentum and lower lip seem subject to con- 

 siderable modifications ; but, after the examination of those of 

 several species, I think it would be unsafe to depend on them 

 alone for generic characters. The subjoined tabular aiTange- 

 ment will give an idea of the diagnoses of the genera : — 



Tarsi tomentose beneath. 

 Eyes narrow, transverse. 



Anterior tarsi with the three intermediate joints transverse. Adelium. 

 Anterior tarsi with the three intermediate joints nan'ow 



and obconie in the female Apads. 



Eyes nearly round Bnjcopia. 



Tarsi pilose beneath. 



Prothorax emarginate at the apex Dyatalica. 



Prothorax not emarginate at the apex. 



Eyes round T)inon'(f. 



Eyes transverse, narrow Licinoma. 



* Trans. Linn. -Soc. xii. p. 420. 



