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irregularly punctate-setose ; the punctures round and sparse in. 

 the centre, close and more coarse towards the sides, each punc- 

 ture giving rise to an upright hair ; a large shallow f oveate 

 depression near the centre of base. Scutellum not evident. 

 Elytra obovate and transversely convex, nearly twice as long 

 as the prothorax, widest behind the middle, shoulders obsolete, 

 with narrow margin not visible from above ; with rows of round 

 punctures placed in shallow striae, intervals quite flat and 

 irregularly dotted with punctures as large as those in the 

 rows — all punctures setiferous. Under-side closely and coarsely 

 punctate, of the same copper-bronze colour as above, with a 

 pilose clothing of whitish hairs showing most at sides and apex. 

 Femora swollen ; tibiae with two minute spines at apex, front 

 tibiae slightly curved. Dimensions — 6 x 2 mm. 



Bab. — New South Wales: Dapto (Illawarra district) (the 

 author), Blue Mountains (Dr. E. W. Ferguson). 



Compared with the other more strongly pilose species D. 

 pygmceus, Haag.-Put, and D. hirsuta, Cart., the former has 

 its elytra "sulcate," with intervals raised, its prothorax sub- 

 parallel, inter alia; while the latter is larger, darker, with 

 concolorous legs, the prothorax is less convex with much coarser 

 and closer punctures, the elytra! striae are deeper, and the 

 seriate punctures larger. In my description of hirsuta I stated 

 its clothing to be '"black" ; it is really a fawn colour above, 

 paler below, but much darker than in D. apiformis. (N.B. — 

 All the species are more or less pilose, but with the exception 

 of the three mentioned above the hairs are few and difficult 

 to see, except on the head and, to some extent, on the thorax.) 

 Type in author's collection. 



Licinoma, Pasc. 

 There is little doubt but that AdeJium commodum, Pasc, 

 together with its two allies, A. tasmanicum, Champ., and .4. 

 nodulosum , Champ., should be included under Licinoma. The 

 front angles of prothorax in commodum are very faintly em al- 

 ginate, while the base angles are also very marked, not really 

 dentate, but accentuated by the oblique basal foveae noticed by 

 Champion in the description of tasmanicum, but not included 

 in Pascoe's very brief diagnosis; also the tarsi of commodum 

 are rather pilose than tomentose, and the facies is wholly that 

 of Licinoma. I have not seen specimens of tasmanicum and 

 nodidosum, but their descriptions show their very strong rela- 

 tionship with A. commodum, Pasc. A. nodulosum, Champ., 

 seems only a variety of A. tasmanicum, Champ., the nodulose 

 intervals at apex of elytra being common in variations of cer- 

 tain Adelia. I have two specimens of L. commoda, Pasc.,, 



