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dingy red (the head and parte of the under-surface blackish), 

 the clothing not quite so dense, and the elytra with numerous 

 transverse series of stramineous spots of clothing ; the inter- 

 spaces between the 6pots are more sparsely clothed than on the 

 type; but on the type the spots themselves are indicated, 

 although they are quite as white as the rest of the clothing. 



Belus cylindricus, n. sp. 



Black; parts of legs and of antennae obscurely reddish. 

 Moderately (in places densely) clothed with white or whitish 

 pubescence, rostrum glabrous. Length, 10 J- 11 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Cue and Lake Austin (H. W. 

 Brown). Type I. 7876. 



Structurally close to the preceding species, but narrower, 

 rostrum slightly longer and more curved, fourth joint of 

 antennae slightly longer than third and fifth, median channel 

 of pronotum more distinct, each elytron rather more distinctly 

 produced at base, their maculate appearance more evident, 

 and punctures (due to the less even distribution of pubescence) 

 much more conspicuous ; on the preceding species all the joints 

 of the antennae (after the first) are densely clothed, on the 

 present species four or five of the basal joints are sparsely 

 clothed. In my table it would be associated with amplicollis, 

 from which it is very different; its general appearance is 

 strongly suggestive of some of the narrower species of Lixus. 

 The pubescence causes the head to appear feebly trilineate ; 

 on the pronotum it forms a conspicuous (but interrupted) 

 median line, and numerous lateral spots, on the elytra also it 

 forms numerous spots, and these are in more or less oblique or 

 transverse series, instead of in longitudinal ones, as on most 

 species of the genus ; the spots are all small and loosely formed 

 and are frequently conjoined, the interspaces between the 

 spots are loosely clothed ; on the under-surface there is a 

 small nude spot on each metasternal episternum, and a small 

 one on each side of the base of each of the four basal segments 

 of abdomen. On the type the whole of the pubescence is 

 white, on a second specimen the spots on the elytra are mostly 

 stramineous. 



• Belus floccosus, n. sp. 



Reddish-castaneous ; parte of antennae and of tarsi 

 darker, head black or blackish. Irregularly clothed (densely 

 in places) with white, woolly-looking pubescence. 



Head densely granulat punctate between eyes, at base 

 punctate. Rostrum long, thin, and lightly curved: behind 

 antennae with dense distinct punctures, in front polished and 

 with minute punctures Antennae long and thin, inserted 



