of Coleopterous Insects. 525 



Prothorax laevissimus niger. Elytra disco longitudinaliter ele- 

 vate, subseriatim confertim punctato, bicariuato, margine expla- 

 nato lasvissimo. 



Tribe. Uncertain.* 

 Genus. Adelium. Kirby. 



Hopii. A. nigro-aeneum, nitidum, thorace sublacunoso laevissimo : 

 elytris striatis : striis punctatis ; ioterstitiis alternis subcate- 

 nulatis. 



Plate, xiv. Fig. 5. 

 Long. Corp. Lin. 8. 

 Descr. Corpus oblongum, supra nigro-asneum, subtus atrum, 

 nitidum. Caput punctulis quibusdam sparsis anterius notatum : 

 nucha confertius punctata. Prothorax baud punctatus, utrinque 

 foveolis 2 vel 3 obsoletis, et unica magis distincta longitudinali 

 subarcuata : lateribus valde rotundatis, margine explanato. Cole- 

 optra ovato-oblonga striata : striis punctatis ; interstitiis lajvibus 

 alternis obsolete catenulatis. Tibice intus apud apicem aureo 

 hirtce. 



In honorem Reverendi Friderici Gul. Hope, insectorum col- 

 lectoris et indagatoris indefessi, huic speciei ab ipso communicata;, 

 nomen merito imposui. 



This species much resembles A. calosomoides (Linn. Tr. xii. 

 PI. xxii. fig. 2.) but is as big again. It is distinguished also by 

 having no puncta upon the prothorax, and very few, with the 

 exception of those on the nucha, upon the head. In the elytra 

 also the interstices of the striaj are without puncta, and the alter- 

 nate ones are obsoletely catenulated. 



* Latreille places this genus in the second Family of his Ilelopii ( Families 

 Nat. 378.) but I suspect it rather belongs to the Blapsides, {Ibid. 375,) and to 

 a distinct family which I would name Adeliada. 



