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



thicker outward, and with shorter joints. The four species have 

 a short curved impressed line on each side of the prothorax. 



Adelium neopliyta. 



A. fusco-cupreum, nitidum ; prothorace stibtiliter punctato, haudfo- 

 liaceo ; elytris subanguste obovatis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 subtilissime punctulatis ; antennas apice crassioribus, articulis 

 paulo brevinsculis. 



Hob. Adelaide ; Essendon Plains, Victoria. 



Brownish copper (much darker in the Victorian example), 

 shining ; head and prothorax black, finely punctured, the 

 latter transverse, moderately well rounded at the sides, not 

 foliaceous ; scutellum black, broadly triangular ; elytra rather 

 narrowly obovate, striate-punctate, the striae broad and shal- 

 low, the punctures rather small and not nearly contiguous, the 

 intervals of the stride slightly convex and very minutely punc- 

 tured, epipleurse glabrous, nearly impunctate ; body beneath 

 and legs smooth, pitchy black, tibise and tarsi with ferruginous 

 hairs ; antennae a little thicker outwardly, the joints obconic, 

 not elongated, the third equal to the fourth and fifth together, 

 pitchy, with scattered short hairs. Length 4~ lines. 



A. brevicorne, Blessig, judging from the figure he has given*, 

 appears to be a much broader species, with the prothorax much 

 less narrowed at the apex ; in the description the latter is said 

 to be twice as broad as long. 



Adelium ancilla. 



A. cupreum, sat nitidum; prothorace subtiliter punctato, angulis 

 posticis productis ; elytris irregulariter seriatim impresso-punc- 

 tatis. 



Hab. Darling Downs. 



Copper-brown, rather nitid ; head sparingly punctured ; 

 clypeus rounded at the apex, its suture somewhat indistinct, 

 but the groove at the base of the antennary ridges well marked; 

 prothorax transverse, much narrower than the elytra, finely 

 and rather remotely punctured, broad at the base, the apex 

 narrowed, sides strongly rounded, posterior angles produced 

 directly outwards ; scutellum transversely triangular, its apex 

 rounded ; elytra broadly obovate, convex, seriate-punctate, the 

 punctures irregularly impressed, oblong or round, here and there 

 one, two, or three together, the intervals of the rows broad, 

 impunctate, and more or less uneven from the impressed sides 

 of the punctures ; epipleuree of the elytra, body beneath, and 

 legs glossy reddish copper, sparingly and finely punctured ; 



* Horse Soc. Ent. Rossicse, fasc. i. p. 101, taf. 3. fig. 2. 



