266 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPF.CIES OF ADELIDM, 



striation of the elytra in this type-specimen of A. calosomoides is 

 due to a long immersion in spirits. Mr. Sloane has informed 

 me that Carabidse that have been loDg immersed in spirits have 

 had their sculpture so much intensified as to cause frequent 

 mistakes of identification. 



A. neophyta is a synonym of A. brevicome Blessig, according 

 to Champion,* an opinion with which I concur. It has the 

 widest range of any Adelium that I know. I have taken it in 

 the North-East of New South Wales, Sydney, Victoria, while I 

 have specimens from Adelaide, the localit}^ of Blessig's type. As 

 with all common insects of wide range, it varies greatly in size 

 and colour, the general colour a dark shining bronze varying to 

 black. Blessig specially mentions a black variety known to 

 collectors as A. sphaeroides. 



A. orphana Pasc. — The type of this is a unique specimen 

 I have never seen elsewhere. It is even narrower and more 

 parallel than A. commodum. Yankee Jim Creek, Vic. 



A. pilosum Pasc. — I have one specimen from Victoria that 

 corresponds with the type. It is a near ally of A. scutellare Pasc, 

 but has its sides of prothoi ax roundly angulate, which in com- 

 bination with its pilose clothing and split intercoxal process 

 should separate it from its congeners. 



A. plicigerum Pasc. = A. rugosicolle Macl.(var). — My specimens 

 of A. plicigerum from Mackay, Q., correspond ver}' well with the 

 type from Queensland. My specimens of A. rugosicolle are 

 cotypes kindly given me by Mr. Masters. They only differ 

 slightly in size, and in the greater rugosity of the pronotum of 

 A. rugosicolle. The latter is worth noting as a geographical 

 variety. Both differ from A. auratum Pasc, in having the pro- 

 thorax rugose; in A. auratum it is smooth; while from A. lindeuse 

 Blackb., it is distinguished by its thinner edge to pronotum inter 

 alia. 



A. reduction Pasc, a small coppery insect allied to A. caloso- 

 moides Kirby. I have specimens from Gosford, Wyong, N. S.W.; 

 and Brisbane which correspond to the type. 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 



