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head and i)i"olhoi'ax as « pallido (K^hraoeo ». In the Gosford 

 specimen the head is alinosL hlaciv and tlic pi'othora.v is ofa i-ather 

 dark reddish-hrown ; hutpossihly Pasgoe's specimen was iinmalui'e, 

 Of the colour noted may have been that of the pubescence instead 

 of the derm itself (1). lie makes no mention of prothoracic granules, 

 and these are rather numerous both on the Gosford specimen, and 

 on tlie variety described below. 



Var. COMPOSITA n. var. 



Five specimens before me appear to represent a variety, tliey 

 ditfer in being smaller (6 1/2 to 8 mill.), in having the pubescence 

 (i/iit not the hairs, which are usually blackish), not at all ochreous, 

 but white (to the naked eye it looks grey) and the elytral markings 

 so very indistinct that they might fairly be regarded as absent. 



Hab. : Victoria (C. French), Melbourne (Belgian Museum), 

 Mordialloc (National Museum), N. S. Wales (Macleay Museum), 

 Burrawang (T.-G. Sloane). 



307. BELUS SUBSUTUBALLS n. sp. 



Black with a pnrplish green gloss (more noticeable on the elytra 

 than elsewhere), antenme reddish, tarsi and knees more or less 

 obscurely diluted with red. Suture almost to apex, and sides of 

 sterna and of abdomen, with dense whitish pubescence. 



Head with dense and irregular but clearly delined punctures of 

 variable size, but never very large; with a feeble median line, 

 nostrum thin, the length of head and prothorax combined, apex with 

 small and rather dense [Kinctures, becoming sparser and larger 

 towards base. Antenna3 thin, first joint almost the length of second 

 and third combined, eleventh the length of ninth and tenth 

 combined. Prothorax strongly inllated towards base, with a strong 

 but interrupted median channel; with numerous small punctures 

 and numerous but irregularly distributed and somewhat llattened 

 granules. Scutellum very narrow and transverse. Mi/^j-a depressed 

 along suture, not suddenly raised behind scutellum, each strongly 

 separately rounded and granulate at base, and acutely produced. at 

 apex, the produced portion passing abdomen rather more than the 

 length of its apical segment, with dense punctures liaving a feeble 

 tendency to linear arrangement and usually (except towarils apex) 

 bounded behind by granules. Under surface smooth, and, except for 



(1) hi many instances 1'ascoe has ilescribed parts of the l)ody as of certain 

 colours, when really the colours noted were those of the clothinf^. 



