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on prothorax, dense on scutellum, and forming numerous 

 feeble spots about suture and feebly distributed elsewhere on 

 elytra; dense on under surface but leaving a nude spot on 

 each side piece of metasternum, and on each side of each of 

 the abdominal segments. 



Head with dense and minute punctures at base, but 

 rather coarse betw^een eyes. Rostrum comparatively stout, 

 the length of prothorax, feebly inflated at insertion of an- 

 tennae, behind which the punctures are rather dense and 

 coarse, and in front of which they are mostly small. An- 

 tennae somewhat inflated towards apex, first joint the length 

 of second and third combined; second, third, fourth, and 

 fifth of equal length inter se ; eleventh briefly obpyriform, and 

 shorter than ninth and tenth combined. Protliora.r mode- 

 rately inflated towards base, regularly convex, median line 

 very feeble, disc densely the sides sparsely granulate. Scutel- 

 lum moderately transverse. Elytra not at all depressed 

 along suture, not suddenly raised behind scutellum, each sepa 

 rately strongly and somewhat angularly rounded at base; 

 moderately produced at apex and passing abdomen for about 

 the length of its apical segment; granulate-punctate through- 

 out. Femora edentate, front pair stout, especially in female, 

 hind pair just passing apex of first abdominal segment ; front 

 tibiae rather strongly the others very feebly denticulate 

 below. Length, 7^-8^ mm. 



Heih. — Australia (W. W. Froggatt). Given to me with- 

 out exact locality by Mr. Froggatt, but probably from New 

 South Wales or Queensland. 



On the elytra of one of the specimens there appears to 

 be a very feeble row of spots midway between the suture and 

 each side. On the under surface the pubescence, although 

 fairly dense in the middle, is not so dense as on the sides. The 

 second, third, fourth, and fifth joints are of equal length, 

 a most unusual feature, although the antennae of jmraUelus 

 and etcacia' are somewhat similar. 



In general appearance close to paj-aHelus, but somewhat 

 shorter and more robust and basal segments of abdomen with 

 nude lateral spots only; acacice, to which it is fairly close, 

 has bidentate front femora, and is somewhat narrower; 

 pndicus is larger, and has the first joint of antennae shorter 

 than the second and third combined. 



Belus nigrtceps, n. sp. 



Light brownish-red ; head, base of rostrum, scutellum, 

 meso- and metasternum, base and sides of abdomen and 

 third tarsal joint more or less black, antennae feebly infus- 

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