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and legs glossy copper-brown, with minute scattered punctures; 

 tarsi and outer joints of the antennas ferruginous. Length 

 6| lines. 



Adelium rujptum. 



A. gracile, piceo-fuscmn ; prothorace apice parum emarginato, basi 

 angustiore ; elytris a?neis, striatis, striis iuterruptis. 



Hah. Yankee Jim's Creek. 



Pitchy brown, nitid ; head concave between the antennary 

 ridges, rather thickly punctured, front slightly raised between 

 the eyes ; clypeus tinged with steel-blue, deeply emarginate, 

 the upper lip very short and narrow ; prothorax slightly trans- 

 verse, well rounded at the sides, narrowed at the base, very 

 minutely punctured ; scutellum rather narrowly triangular ; 

 elytra oblong, slightly rounded at the sides, a little depressed, 

 striate, the stria? more or less interrupted, the intervals of the 

 stria? flattish and nearly impunctate, epipleura? indistinctly 

 punctured ; body beneath and legs dark brown, glossy ; tarsi 

 and outer joints of antenna? ferruginous. Length 7 lines. 



Adelium commodum. 



A. gracile, nigrum ; prothorace apice parum emarginato, basi baud 

 angustato ; elytris aeneis, tenuiter subpunctato-striatis. 



Hab. 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 emarginate, 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 stria? 

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

 indistinct punctuation ; epipleura? of the elytra, body beneath, 

 and femora glossy reddish brown, with minute shallow punc- 

 tures ; tibia? reddish ferruginous ; tarsi and antenna? paler, in- 

 clining to fulvous. Length 5 lines. 



Apasis. 



Mentum angulis anticis rotimdatum. 

 Prothorax apice truncatus. 



Tarsi ant. in fcem. 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 



