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abdomen, with a small nude spot on the metasternal epister- 

 num; the abdomen is moderately clothed along the middle, 

 but the derm is obliquely glabrous just before the stripe on 

 each side, there are no nude spots on the sides themselves. 

 The punctures between the eyes are deep and round, with 

 their walls not broken up into granules. 



Belus villosus, n. sp. 



Black ; tibiae and claws more or less obscurely reddish. 

 Clothed (in places densely) with white pubescence, and in 

 addition with numerous long hairs.' 



Head with coarse, partially concealed punctures between 

 eyes, becoming smaller but more distinct about base. Rostrum 

 scarcely longer than prothorax, rather thin and distinctly 

 curved ; behind antennae with coarse crowded punctures, in 

 front shining and with rather small but conspicuous ones. 

 Antennae inserted in middle of rostrum, not very thin and 

 decidedly thickened to apex, first joint almost as long as 

 second and third combined, second and fourth subequal in 

 length and each slightly shorter than third, eleventh about 

 once and one-third the length of tenth. Prothorax about as 

 long as greatest width, sides strongly rounded, extreme base 

 not much wider than apex, median line well-defined ; densely 

 granulate. Elytra thin, not much wider than prothorax, 

 parallel-sided to near apex, which is but lightly produced, 

 suture not elevated at base ; with dense strong punctures, 

 about base with a few granules. Femora edentate, hind pair 

 just passing basal segment of abdomen ; basal joint of tarsi 

 somewhat inflated and distinctly shorter than the two follow- 

 ing ones combined. Length, 9^-11 mm. 



flab. — Western Australia: Cue (II. W. Brown); South 

 Australia : Quorn (Blackburn's collection). Type, I. 7889. 



With many long straggling hairs as on most specimens 

 of filiformis, but otherwise very different to that species; in 

 general appearance it is somewhat like large specimens of 

 graiHcollis, but with even looser clothing, head trilineate, 

 abdominal spots different, etc., also like nireopilomis, but 

 smaller, rostrum shorter, antennae inserted further from the 

 base, prothorax less transverse, and clothing of head and 

 abdomen different. In my table would be associated with 

 amplicollis, which is a considerably larger species, with very 

 different prothorax. On one of the Quorn specimens the elytra 

 are obscurely reddish, and the tibiae brightly coloured. The 

 white pubescence margins the eyes, and forms a fairly distinct 

 median line on the head, on the pronotum it forms a distinct 

 (and sometimes interrupted) median line and numerous spots 



