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closely covered with rounded and usually flattened granules. 

 Scutellum moderately transverse. Elytra feebly depressed on 

 each side of suture, the depression bounded by a slight 

 elevation but not by a carina, base suddenly raised and 

 granulate behind scutellum; each separately strongly (some- 

 what angularly) rounded and granulate at base; apex pro- 

 duced and passing abdomen for rather more than the length 

 of its apical segment, with rather dense punctures, becoming 

 towards base interspersed with round granules, interspaces 

 between punctures and granules with very small punctures. 

 Metusterrmnv with a few rather conspicuous granules. Front 

 femora stout, with two minute teeth placed transversely near 

 apex, the others edentate, posterior extending almost to 

 middle of second abdominal segment; front tibiae strongly, 

 the others feebly denticulate below. Length, 11 h mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Gayndah (Australian Museum), 

 Chillagoe (J. A. Anderson). 



On the under surface the clothing is dense (except for a 

 nude spot on each side piece of the metasternum), on the 

 sides of sterna and fairly dense in their middle, and forms 

 a rather large but loose spot on each side of each of the 

 abdominal segments, also a fairly large spot on the middle 

 of the first segment; the second and third have a feeble white 

 line along the middle, and there are minute scattered spots 

 elsewhere. The elytral granules from all directions are dis- 

 tinct only near the base, but from some directions they ap- 

 pear to extend almost to the apex. In addition to the sub- 

 sutural depression each elytron has a feeble longitudinal de- 

 pression about its middle. One specimen differs from the 

 type in being (except the head and rostrum, which are black) 

 of a deep reddish-brown, with pale antennae, tibiae, and tarsi. 

 Its abdomen is apparently partly abraded, as, except for the 

 clothing on the sides and middle, it is practically glabrous. 



Moderately close to stmipuiictatus, but elytra noncarinate 

 and with a hump about scutellum; the hump is much more 

 prominent than in puncficeps, and the basal joint of its an- 

 tennae considerably longer. Anguineus, to which it is also 

 very close in appearance, has edentate femora. 



Belus niveopilosus, n. sp. 

 Blackish-brown, antennae and claws of a dingy red. 

 Clothed with white pubescence, margining eyes (rather sparse 

 elsewhere on head), forming a distinct median and feeble 

 lateral lines on prothorax, rather dense on scutellum, forming 

 three rows of spots on each elytron, and dense but irregu- 

 larly distributed on under surface. 



