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



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 Hoivittii. PI. XI. fig. 7, $ . 



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



Hab. 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, upper 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 

 narrow raised border ; scutellum transverse ; elytra oblong 

 oval, a little broader than the prothorax, slightly rounded at 

 the sides, striate, the strise and the spaces between them im- 

 punctate, scutellar stria nearly obsolete ; epipleura? of the 

 elytra, body beneath, and legs pitchy brown, very smooth and 

 glossy ; tarsi and palpi fulvous ; antennas a little thicker out- 

 wards. Length 10 Hues. 



LlCINOMA. 



Mentum angulis anticis rotundatum. 

 Tarsi subtus leviter pilosi. 

 Prothorax apice haud emarginatus. 



In other respects, except that the eye is broader, this genus 

 resembles Adelium, with the habit of some of the smaller 

 Feronice. 



Licinoma nitida. 



L. cuprea, nitida ; elytris punctato-striatis ; tarsis fulvis ; antennis 

 ferrugineis. 



Hab. Mount Macedon, Victoria. 



Copper-brown, shining, finely punctured ; head convex be- 

 tween the antennary ridges, sparsely punctured ; clypeus 

 emarginate at the apex ; prothorax nearly as long as broad, 

 the sides slightly rounded, a little narrowed at the base ; scu- 

 tellum small and indistinct ; elytra oblong, very moderately 

 rounded at the sides, scarcely broader than the prothorax, de- 



* The anterior and frequently the intermediate tarsi are more dilated 

 in the males of Adelium than in the females. 



