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and generally smaller than female. (2) Male with tarsi, especially 

 anterior tarsi, more dilate. (3) Antennae of male proportionally 

 longer than in female. 



History. — Kirby, in 1817, founded the genus Adelium for the 

 reception of three insects, A. calosomoides, A. licinoides and A. 

 caraboides, of which the last had alread} T been described as 

 Ccdosoma porcatum by Fabricius in 1774. As to A. calosomoides, 

 I shall refer to this species later. A. licinoides = A. cisteloides 

 Erichs., according to Champion.* This species has a wide range 

 in Victoria and Tasmania. 



In 1835, Boisduval (Voyage de 1' Astrolabe) added six species, 

 A. abbreviatum, A. harpaloides, A. helopioides, A. punctipenne, A. 

 rugicolle and A. virescens. 



A. abbreviatum Boisd. — A. impressum Blanch., is a common 

 Tasmanian insect, whose identity has been preserved by Blessig. 



A. harpaloides Boisd. — Two specimens marked "Coll. Dejean " 

 are in the Bates Coll. in the British Museum, and exactly corres- 

 pond to A. calosomoides Kirby, except in being smaller. This 

 species must not be confounded with A. harpaloides White, from 

 New Zealand = Pheloneis harpaloides Pasc. = A. amaroides Bates. f 



A. helopioides Boisd. = A. licinoides Kirby, in the opinion of 

 Pascoe. 



A. virescens Boisd. — In the British Museum a number of 

 specimens labelled A. virescens are placed as synonjmious with A. 

 brevicorne Blessig, and A. neophyta Pasc. I saw the same species 

 marked A. virescens Boisd., in the Brussels Museum. 



A. punctipenne and A. rugicolle Boisd., are quite unknown to 

 me, and as with all Boisduval's descriptions, they are entirely 

 inadequate for identification, especially in the absence of measure- 

 ments and localities of capture. 



Castelnau added one species, A. angulicolle, which has a wide 

 range in New South Wales and Victoria. I have specimens 

 from Wagga, N. S.W., and near Melbourne, Vic. Though I 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 

 t Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser.4, Vol.xii. p.32. 



