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side a little darker and less metallic than the npper ; mtercoxal 

 process more closely pmictured and rugose than in C. rufi- 

 cornis : legs rather stout, steel-blue with purplish reflections ; 

 tarsi elongate ; antennae rather long, slender, the outer joints 

 rufescent,- prosternal process horizontal, lightly wrinkled, 

 broadly concave, the end broadly rounded ; mesosternum 

 declivous, and broadly and somewhat deeply concave in front : 

 eyes above slightly oblique. 



Length 7 lines ; width of elytra across the middle 3 lines. 



Hah. New Caledonia. One example. 



The following species, at a first glance, appears to be foreign 

 to the genus ; it possesses, however, all the essential characters, 

 the difference being only one of facies. 



CalUsmilax sternalts, n. sp. 



Elongate-oval, very convex. Head and prothorax black ; 

 the former finely, the latter more strongly punctured ; apex of 

 protliorax emarginate, narrower than the base, front angles 

 somewhat prominent, acute ; a shallow fovea on each side of 

 the middle, at the base : elytra subovate, very convex, of a 

 somewhat purplish-violet (or plum) colour, appearing in some 

 lights to have a slight castaneous tinge, the suture and base 

 brownish ; seriate-foveate,the foveae obsolete at the base, the first 

 three or fom- rows from the suture shallow and linear for half 

 their length from the base, the rest deep, large, very irregular, 

 more or less angular, with costiform intervals ; intervals im- 

 punctate, save at the base, where are a few small scattered 

 punctures ; a large indentation on each side at about the 

 middle ; lateral margins narrow, and strongly reflexed at base 

 and apex, flat, broad, and strongly sinuous in the middle: 

 underside dark brown ; iutercoxal process very strongly and 

 coarsely cellular-punctate : legs rather stout, violet ; outer 

 joints of antennae larger than ordinary ; prosternal process very 

 wide, reddish testaceous, obliquely impressed at each side, the 

 margins a little elevated and thickened, the end broadly trun- 

 cated ; mesosternum declivous, and broadly but shallowly 

 concave in front : eyes above decidedly oblique. 



Length 3|- lines ; width of elytra across the middle 1^^ line. 



Ifab. New Caledonia. One example. 



Adelium zelandicum, n. sp. 



Oblong, subparallel, attenuate behind, depressed ; bronzed 

 brown, more or less metallic. Head short, immersed up to 

 the eyes in the prothorax, somewhat rounded in front ; epi- 



