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to near apex, which is lightly produced, each side of 

 base obtusely produced, with a conspicuous granulate 

 elevation behind scutellum ; densely punctate, about base 

 granulate-punctate. Femora rather stout, conspicuously 

 dentate ; hind ones extending to about middle of second 

 abdominal segment; basal joint of tarsi distinctly shorter than 

 the two following ones combined. Length, 11-14 mm. 



Hab. — South Australia (Rev. A. P. Burgess), Para- 

 chilna (Field Naturalists' Excursion), Mount Lofty (S. H. 

 Curnow), Quorn (Blackburn's collection). Type, I. 7874. 



In my table of the genus < 32 ) might be placed in E, and 

 would there be associated with pimctirostris, with which it 

 has little in common ; if referred to EE, it would be associated 

 with brunneus, to which it is certainly close, but from which 

 it differs in being consistently larger, and elytra with spots 

 not confined to suture. The pubescence (except on the under- 

 surface) is rather sparse on the head, but encircles the eyes, 

 the rostrum is glabrous (except that its base is sparsely 

 clothed), the median line on the pronotum is feeble and 

 interrupted, but the sides and the scutellum are densely 

 clothed, on the elytra the spots are numerous and small, 

 becoming crowded (and sometimes conjoined) close to the 

 suture, but distinct to the sides and mostly with a feebly 

 seriate arrangement; on the under-surface the clothing is 

 mostly dense, but with a nude spot on each side of the meta- 

 sternum and another on its episternum, abdomen rather 

 sparsely clothed along middle, and with a row of glabrous 

 spots towards each side, the legs are moderately clothed. On 

 some specimens the median line of pale pubescence on the 

 pronotum is not conspicuous, but this appears to be due to 

 infiltration of grease; on some specimens also the elytra, and 

 especially the legs, are not as dark as those of others. There 

 are two conspicuous teeth on the front femora, and several 

 smaller ones. A specimen from Parachilna, * otherwise quite 

 normal, has a row of small teeth on each side of the lower 

 apical half of the rostrum; on many specimens of brunneus (33) 

 similar rows may be seen. 



Belus multimaculatus, n. 6p. 

 Black ; elytra, legs, and antennae more or less obscurely 

 reddish. Upper-surface sparsely clothed except for numerous 

 conspicuous white spots; under-surface densely clothed with 

 white pubescence, but with numerous glabrous spots. 



(32) Ante, 1908, pp. 231-235. 



(33) On brunneus also the clothing; is sometimes quite regular 

 on the suture, but that species is considerably wider than 

 suturalis, and is otherwise different. 



