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Head with dense and coarse but partially concealed 

 punctures. Rostrum (for the genus) rather stout, the length 

 of prothorax, feebly inflated at insertion of. antennse, behind 

 which the punctures are rather coarse and in front of Avhich 

 they are fine, especially towards the apex. Antennae not very 

 thin, first joint slightly longer than third, second and third 

 equal in length, eleventh slightly shorter than ninth and tenth 

 combined. Prothorax rather strongly inflated towards base, 

 median channel rather feeble, with dense granules and punc- 

 tures throughout. Scutellum rather strongly transverse. 

 Elytra flattened but scarcely depressed along suture, not sud- 

 denly raised behind scutellum ; each separately strongly 

 rounded at base, apex somewhat acutely produced and pass- 

 ing abdomen for about the length of its apical segment ; punc- 

 tures and granules, except that they are smaller and more 

 numerous, much as in preceding species. Granules of metas- 

 ternum almost entirely concealed. Femora edentate, front 

 pair very stout, posterior just passing apex of first abdominal 

 segment. Length, 12 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Endeavour River (C. French). 



On each elytron the rows of spots tend to become con- 

 fused towards the base ; the sutural row consists of larger but 

 less clearly defined spots than elsewhere; the spots on the 

 outer row are small and also rather ill-defined. On the sterna 

 and sides of abdomen the clothing is dense, but there is a 

 nude spot on each of the side pieces of the metasternum. The 

 basal segment of abdomen is rather densely clothed in the 

 middle, as well as on the sides, and the second segment has a 

 small supplementary spot on each side. Although in general 

 appearance quite a typical Beliis, the scrobes are very short 

 (not half the length of the basal joint of antennae) and ab- 

 ruptly terminated; so that they could quite fairly be called 

 foveiform. 



The edentate front femora distinguish from hemistictus 

 and ptincticeps, the comparatively short rostrum and short tail 

 from anguineus and cristafits: amplicollis is considerably 

 larger, and has; a rather prominent hump behind the scutel- 

 lum. It is close to the description of helmsi, but the antennae 

 are not black, and the size is less than 7 lines. 



BeLUS BEEVtPES, n. sp. 



Blackish-brown, apical half of rostrum and appendages 

 more or less diluted with red ; scutellum and elytra of a rather 

 light brown, but the latter almost black at apex; third, fourth 

 and fifth abdominal segments tipped with flavous. Clothed 

 with pale ochreous pubescence, margining eyes, rather dense 

 on sides of prothorax, forming a spot on the middle of its 



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