594 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



T. INTERNATUS, Pasc. Hal. — Sydnej'. 



Subfamily BELIDES. 

 Belus acacia, n.sp. 



Head blackish; rostrum, antemiEe and prothorax piceous-brown; 

 elytra of a rather dark brown; legs reddish; tarsi black. Head 

 with whitish hair at sides of eyes; prothorax with a white median 

 line; elytra rather sparsely clothed, the clothing denser and in 

 small tufts towards suture. Under surface densely and almost 

 regularly clothed, the hairs on prosternum tinged with yellowy a 

 small round nude spot on each side of metasternum and of four 

 basal segments of abdomen. 



Head granulate, punctate. Rostrum comparatively short, 

 feebly decreasing to apex, slightly curved ; in $ densely and 

 strongly punctate at base, sparsely but still distinctly towards 

 apex, in 9 sparsely but distinctly punctate throughout. Antennae 

 increasing in width to apex, in $ passing, in 9 not reaching base 

 of prothorax; 1st joint distinctly longer, 2nd slightly shorter than 

 3rd, 11th in both sexes twice the length of 10th. Prothorax as 

 long as wide, regularly rounded in middle; more coarsely granu- 

 late than head; median line very feelily impressed. Elytra almost 

 parallel to near apex, each feebly separately rounded, not pro- 

 duced, densely punctate; granulate at base and about suture; 

 scarcely depressed about suture, which is slightly raised and 

 thickened towards apex. Anterior femora each with a single 

 distinct sharp tooth and several scarcely visible teeth or granules; 

 the other femoi'a less noticeably dentate, posterior scarcely 

 extending to apex of basal abdominal segment; anterior tibise 

 strongly dentate beneath. Length 7f, beyond abdomen \, 

 rostrum 1; width l}mm. 



//a6. — Coolgardie (Mr. C. A. White), Geraldton, W.A. (Lea). 



This species can scarcely he farinarius, Pascoe, as " prothorace 

 in medio prof unde longitudinaliter sulcato " would certainly not 

 apply to any of my specimens. Pascoe gives the length of that 

 species as 5 lines; my largest specimen only measures 4^ lines, and 



