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foveas 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 Adeliinjs. 



Caput exsertum, culmen supraantennarium in spin am productum. 

 MaxiUai lobo interiore majore, subquadrato, apice dense fimbriate 

 Prothorax apice truncatus. 

 Elytra costata, plica epipleurali ad bumerum haud 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. Antennas 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. 

 Maxillas small, densely fringed, the inner lobe larger than the 

 outer and unarmed ; their palpi slender, the basal joint elon- 

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

 sides, apex narrowed, truncate, posterior angles obliquely 

 truncate. Elytra oblong-ovate, costate, flat above ; epipleura 

 terminating before the apex, the epipleural fold slightly sinuate, 

 not extending to the shoulder. Legs rather long ; femora and 

 tibias slightly compressed ; tarsi slender, the anterior in the 

 males rather strongly dilated, the penultimate joint of all sub- 

 bilobed. Sterna and abdomen as in Adelium and Atryplwdes. 



Although this genus has the subbilobed tarsi of Adelium , its 

 affinity appears to me to be nearer Atrypliodes 1 on account of 

 its costate elytra, only slightly sinuate epipleural fold, and 

 habit ; in the latter respect it approaches Atryphodes egerius. 

 It is among the most remarkable genera of Tenebrionidas. 

 The earliest specimens of this species which I saw were stated 

 to be from Queensland ; Dr. Howitt, however, gives Kiama as 

 the habitat of the individuals he has kindly sent me. 



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

 in the Proc. Ent. Soc. for April 1868. ' From some error, " Clypeus valde " 

 was printed " Clypeus hand." M. Preudhomme de Borre some time after 

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

 gian Entomological Society, under the name of Cerudclium armatum. 



