274 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF ADELIUM, 



16. Elytral series minutely punctate A. violaceum Carter. 



Pilose. 



17. Elytral series punctate A. heterodoxum Lea. 



/3. Intervals of elytra more or less interrupted. 



Size medium. 

 Colour black or greenish. 



18. Elytral intervals near suture generally interrupted, 



A. porcatum Fabr. 

 A, caraboides Kirby. 

 Colour green, subnitid. 



19. All elytral intervals interrupted A. augurale Pasc. 



20. More nitid than 18 A. aerariumPa.sc. 



Colour dark bronze, prothorax sometimes greenish. 



21. Elytral intervals interrupted only on sides and apex 



A. similatum Germ. 



22. Larger and more convex; pronotum more widely rounded 



and abruptly contracted at base ...A. obesum Pasc. 



23. Narrower, more elongate and depressed than 21, third 



joint of antennae very long A. tenebrioides Erichs. 



Colour blue-black. 



24. Elytra impunctate A. tropicum Blackb. 



Size small. 



Colour blue. 



25. Elytral intervals interrupted only near apex... A coemdeum Carter. 



Subsection B. Third joint of antennae equal in length to fourth and fifth 

 combined. 



y Intervals of elytra raised and more or less interrupted. 

 Not pilose. 



Colour black, nitid. 



26. Size medium A . capitatum Lea. 



Size smaller. 



Colour black, fuscous. 



27. Foliate sides of pronotum reflexed, elytral intervals 



reticulate . . A . reticulatum Carter. 



Pilose. 



Colour blue-black. 



28. Form somewhat square, pronotum rugosely punctate 



A. barbatum, n.sp. 

 6\ Intervals of elytra not raised, elytra seriate-punctate. 



29. A. geminatum Pasc. 



A. punctum Carter. 





