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a few feeble ones on metasternum, entirely without granules. 

 Femora edentate, front pair very stout, hind pair just passing apex 

 of basal abdominal segment; front tibiae strongly, the others rather 

 feebly denticulate below. Length 11-14 mill. 



Hah. : Qneensland : Cairns (Macleay Museum and E. Allen). 

 Coen River (H. Hacker). 



The sides of the elytra are clothed with sparse greyish or blackish 

 pubescence, becoming fairly dense on the apex, but it is very 

 indistinct. There is an oblong nude space on each of the side pieces 

 of metasternum; and there is generally a small amount of pale 

 pubescence at the base of the prothorax and about the eyes. Many 

 of the prothoracic granules are obliquely cut off in front and 

 contain a central puncture. 



In general appearance remarkably close to vertehralis and sutura- 

 lis; but apart from its different colour, the sculpture of its prothorax 

 is totally different to that of vertehralis, and the elytra are also 

 differently sculptured, the abdomen is without a line of hair down 

 the middle and the glabrous portion of the side piece of the 

 metasternum is different; suturalis, from which it also differs in 

 these details, has dentate femora. 



308. BELUS INCONSTANS n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, prothorax in middle, scutellum and under 

 surface somewhat darker; head and base of rostrum black. Upper 

 surface with sparse whitish pubescence, feebly margining eyes, 

 forming three feeble lines on prothorax and feebly clothing suture. 

 Under surface with a white stripe on each side from eye to apex of 

 abdomen, but leaving a nude spot on side of metasternum; 

 elsewhere sparsely or very sparsely clothed. 



Head with dense clearly detined punctures, becoming rather 

 large between eyes. Rostrum comparatively short and wide, no 

 longer than prothorax; with rather coarse partially concealed 

 punctures on basal two fifths, elsewhere with small punctures. 

 Antennae (for the genus) not very thin, first joint distinctly longer 

 than third, eleventh slightly stouter than and the length of ninth 

 and tenth combined, tenth slightly transverse. 



Prothorax rather strongly inflated towards base, with a rather 

 feeble median channel; densely granulate-punctate. Scutellum very 

 narrow and transverse. Elytra flattened but not depressed along 

 suture, not suddenly raised behind scutellum, each separately 

 strongly rounded at base, sides very feebly decreasing in width 

 from near base to beyond the middle, apex acutely produced and 



