24 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and Species of 



Adelium commodum. 



A. gracile, nigrum ; prothorace apice pamm emarginato, basi hand 

 angustato ; elytris seneis, tenuiter subpunctato-striatis. 



Hah. Tasmania. 



Black, subnitid ; head scarcely punctured, flattish in front 

 and above the eyes ; clypeus strongly emarginate, somewhat 

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

 broad, apex slightly em?.rginate, 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, finely striate, the striae 

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

 indistinct punctuation ; epipleuras of the elytra, body beneath, 

 and femora glossy reddish brown, with minute shallow punc- 

 tures ; tibiae reddish ferruginous ; tarsi and antennae paler, in- 

 clining to fulvous. Length 5 lines. 



Apasis. 



Mentum angulis anticis rotundatum. 

 ProthorcLv apice truncatus. 



Tarsi ant. in foem. art. tribus intermediis obconicis ; omnes subtus 

 tomentosi. 



The type of this genus has a very different appearance from 

 any of the species of Adelium ; and therefore, in the absence 

 of any very salient differential character, I have been led to 

 attach some importance to the peculiar form of the inter- 

 mediate joints of the anterior tarsi of the female ; for in the 

 male they are transverse, as in both sexes of Adelium^ ^ but 

 more dilated. 



I owe my specimens, as well as all the new allied forms 

 here described, to my kind friend Dr. Howitt, to whom I dedi- 

 cate the species. 



Apasis Howittii. PL XI. fig. 7, S • 

 A. atra, nitida ; tarsis palpisque fulvis ; elytris striatis. 

 Hah. Victoria. 



Black, shining ; head nearly impunctate, very hollow be- 

 tween the antennary ridges in the line of the clypeal suture, a 

 transverse groove in front above the eyes ; clypeus strongly 

 emarginate, ujiper lip large and prominent ; prothorax very 

 glabrous, finely and sparsely punctured, about equal in length 

 and breadth, convex, rounded at the sides, the margins with a 



* The anterior and fi'equently the intermediate tarsi are more dilated 

 in the males of Adelium than in the females. 



