600 



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 eleventh about once and one-half the length of tenth. Pro- 

 thorax moderately transverse, basal angles acute, median line 

 rather narrow; with numerous small well-defined punctures. 

 Elytra parallel-sided, each rather strongly produced at base, 

 conjointly lightly produced at apex, with a conspicuous 

 granulate elevation behind scutellum ; densely granulate- 

 punctate. Femora conspicuously dentate, hind pair extending 

 to tip of second abdominal segment, basal joint of tarsi as 

 long as second and third combined. Length, 10 mm. { ^ 1 \ 



Hab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection). 

 Type (unique), I. 7871. 



A well-marked species allied to grayi and punctirostris, 

 but markings very different (on the pronotum the disc, except 

 for a conspicuous median line, is almost glabrous). The head 

 and base of rostrum are rather sparsely clothed, but the eyes 

 are encircled by pale clothing, and there is a feeble median 

 line ; on the pronotum the median line of clothing is well- 

 defined (and continued on to the scutellum), and the sides 

 are densely clothed; to the naked eye the elytra appear to 

 be clothed with four conspicuous but much interrupted stripes, 

 and there are a few small spots scattered about; on the elytra 

 also there is some very short dark pubescence, but this is 

 invisible from most directions ; on the under-surface the 

 clothing is very dense and with a beautiful pinkish and 

 greenish iridescence, but with a glabrous spot on each side 

 of the metasternum, and one on the metasternal episternum, 

 and a row of irregular glabrous spots on each side of the 

 abdomen; the legs are moderately clothed. The rostrum is 

 about as long as the head and prothorax combined. The 

 front femora are tridentate, two of the teeth being placed 

 longitudinally. 



Belus mimicus, n. sp. 



Black; parts of the appendages obscurely diluted with 

 red. Irregularly clothed with white pubescence. 



Head coarsely granulate-punctate between eyes, more 

 finely towards base. Rostrum lightly but distinctly curved, 

 about the length of prothorax ; densely and finely transversely 

 corrugated, and with punctures scattered about, larger and 

 denser about base than elsewhere. Antennae not very thin, 

 third joint somewhat shorter than first, scarcely longer than 

 fourth and twice the length of second, eleventh about once 

 and one-half the length of tenth. Prothorax about as long 

 as basal width, sides feebly decreasing in width from base to 

 apex (feebly incurved near apex), with a narrow median line : 

 densely punctate or granulate-punctate. Elytra parallel-sided 



(31) The lengths given are exclusive of the rostrum. 



