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spatiis inter puncta levibus ovatis, plurimis oblongis vel linearibus ; 
pedibus levigatis, nitidis; corpore infra nitido, abdomine reticulato- 
punetulato. Long. 7 lin. 
Hab.: Otago. 
Adelium is a common Australian genus ; but it has not previously been 
found in New Zealand. This species may be placed after A. proximum, 
although it is not closely allied. The sculpture of the elytra is very dis- 
tinctive (lines of fine punctures embracing oval, oblong, and a few linear 
spaces, all of a very irregular character). Seirotrana, to which A. proximum 
was referred, should, I think, be united to Adelium, its principal character 
(the “ contiguity” of the prothorax to the elytra) being in some species 
rather difficult to determine, although Lacordaire lays great stress on it. 
Amarosoma, Redt., is the same as my Pheloneis (** Journ. of Entom.," Vol. IL., 
p. 483) ; his species, A. simulans, is or was known to Australian entomolo- 
gists as Adelium harpaloides, White; but White's species is much less con- 
vex, with more parallel sides, and larger. The two species should therefore 
stand as P. harpaloides, Wh., and P. simulans, Redt. 
Salpingus bilunatus, 
S. fuscus, subnitidus; antennis artieulis quatuor ultimis perfoliatis, 
fuscis; eapite prothoraceque fortiter punctatis, hoc utrinque rotun- 
dato, basin versus multo angustiore; scutello transverso ; elytris 
confertim striato-punctatis, macula magna semilunari, ad suturam 
contigua, ornatis; corpore infra pedibusque fulvescentibus, vel 
aliquando infuscatis. Long. 1-14 lin. 
Hab.: Auckland. 
This species has quite the outline of our S. cereus; but it is scarcely 
half the length (i.e., eight times less in bulk), and well marked by the large 
semilunar patch on the elytra extending from the shoulder to near the apex 
and meeting its fellow at the suture. 
Sessinia pauperata. 
S. testacea, parce pubescens ; antennis artieulo tertio quam quarto paulo, 
breviore; capite prothoraceque subtiliter et confertim punctatis ; 
scutello MESES transverso ; elytris brevibus, hasta striatis, 
Se alternis multo latioribus. Long. 4 
b.: Christchurch. 
i very distinet species may at once be known by its short elytra. 
The genus Sessinia was published by me in January, 1863 (“ Journ. of 
Entom.” II., p. 45, note). Ananca, Fairm. et Germ. (** Ann. Soc. Ent. de 
Fr." 4¢ sér. IIL, p. 267, 1863), must have been published some months 
later, as a subsequent paper (p. 293) was read at the “ séance " of the 10th 
June in the same year. Dryops lineata, Fab. (Ent. Syst.," I., pt. 2, p. 76), 
