92 Records of the S.A. Museum 



BETHELIUM SUPOPACUM sp. nov. 



Of a rusty castaneuus ami suhopaque. some pal•t^ darker, (.■lytra with flavous 

 markings. Clotlied with \cry short, inconspicuous pubescence, and in addition 

 with numerous moderately long, suhcrcci hairs. 



IJcad with small, crtjwded, as])erate punctures. Antennae moderately long, 

 first joint almost as long as second and third combined, third slightly longer than 

 fourth, and much shorter than fifth, the longest of all. the others gradually 

 decreasing in length. ProtJioi-ax rather flat, sides rather strongh' and almost 

 evenly rounded, base narrowed and with a trans\'erse impression, median line 

 feeble; with dense punctures as on head, and with numerous small granules, 

 each with a setiferous puncture, lilvtra flat, at l)ase slightly wider than widest 

 part of i)rothorax, almost ])arallel-sided to near apex ; surface shagreened and 

 with numerous small punctures, becoming larger, denser, and asperate about 

 base, in addition with setiferous granules as on pronotum. Legs moderately 

 long; femora stout, hind i)air not extending to apex of elytra; til)iae almost 

 straight. Length, 5-7 mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Cairns district (E. Allen and A. M. Lea). Type, L9316. 



Structurally close to B. signiferum. but elytral punctures and markings verv 

 different, middle tibiae straight, eyes somewhat larger and less deeply notched, 

 and fourth joint of antennae somewhat longer. The darker parts are not sharply 

 defined, and are the sides of the prothorax, and the parts adjacent to the sub- 

 basal elytral spots ; the under-surface and legs, the femora sometimes dark in the 

 middle, are rather pale; the spots on each elytron are two subconjoined, occa- 

 sionally quite conjoined, ovate ones, at about the basal third (the outer one 

 somewhat in advance of the inner), and a rather large spot of irregular size, 

 occasionally appearing as two suljconjoined ones, at about the apical third ; oil 

 some specimens in addition the shoulder and a space near the scutellum are paler 

 than the adjacent surface. The median line of the pronotum is \ery feebly 

 impressed, and is usually imjiunctate ; the setiferous granules on the elytra are 

 seen to be in quite regular rows when \ iewed from behind, but from above seem 

 rather irregularly distributed. 



BEBIUS CYLINDRICUS sp. nov. 



Plate ix, fig. 6. 



( )f a dingy rusty-brown, some parts almost l)lack. Lightly clothed with 

 short, depressed, white pubescence, denser on scutellum, metasternum, and 

 abdomen than elsewhere. 



Head small; with rather coarse, crowded ])unctures; median line distinct on 

 basal half. Eyes large, very coarsely faceted, rather deeply notched. Antennae 



