262 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF ADELIUM, 



have nob seen the type, it is the most easily recognised of all the 

 genus, and is well known in all collections, besides being figured 

 by Blessig. 



In 1842, Erichson described A. elongatum, A. tenebrioides and 

 A. cisteloides. 



A. elongatum Erichs. — If my identification be correct — and my 

 specimens (taken at Launceston, Tas.) agree with those named as 

 above in the Macleay Museum — this should be referred to Seiro- 

 trana as the description of Erichson certainly warrants. 



A. tenebrioides Erichs. — No authoritatively named specimens 

 are to be found in the Sydney museums. The specimens labelled 

 A. tenebrioides in the Macleay Museum are certainly wrongly 

 identified.* In the British Museum I found one specimen labelled 

 " Compared with type by Dr. Haag," which exactly corres- 

 ponds with specimens I have seen from the Dandenong Ranges,. 

 Vic, and from King Island, Tas. It differs from A. similatum 

 Germ., in its narrow prothorax, and more elongate depressed 

 form. 



A. cisteloides Erichs. = A. licinoides ~K.\v\)y,jide Champion. f 



In 1845 Blanchard described A. carinatum and A. impressum r 

 of which the latter is identical with A. abbreviatum Boisd.,J while 

 the former is a mystery of the past, whose identity I have beeu 

 able to trace only by the following note :— " M. Blanchard (Hist. 

 Nat d, Ins. ii. p. 35) a fonde en peu de mots un genre Tropidop- 

 terus, qu'il place a la suite des Adelium, et anquel il donne pour 

 type une espece de l'Australie, soi-disant decrite par M. Boisduval r 

 sous le nom de carinatus, Mais il n'existe dans la ' Faune de 

 l'Oceanie' de cet auteur, qu'un seul insecte qui porte ce nom, et 

 c'est un Curculionide du genre Amycterus " (Lacordaire, Gen. 

 Col. v). 



In 1848 Germar described A. similatum; and, in 1861, Blessig 

 described A. brevieorue in his able monograph on the genus. 



* Since rectified [June 9th]. 

 t Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 

 Blessig, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18G2. 



