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anticis muticis fortiter incrassatis, posticis segment! 



ventralis basalis apicem haud attingentibus. Long (rostr. 



incl.), 5 1. ; lat., 1 1. 

 Closely allied to B. angustulns, Germ., and filiformis, Germ., 

 differing from the former inter alia by its shorter and stouter 

 rostrum, its more linear form and the much less produced apices 

 of its elytra ; from the latter inter alia by its elytra distinctly 

 mottled with whitish scales near the suture, its less elongate form 

 and the more produced apices of its elytra. 



Fraser Range. 



B 



Helmsi, sp. nov. (fem.). Minus angustus ; niger, squamis 

 niveis ornatus, rostro antice et antennarum basi summa 

 paullo rufescentibus ; rostro cylindrico leviter arcuato quam 

 prothorax paullo longiori, nitido, sat crebre a basi antrorsum 

 gradatim niagis subtiliter punctulato ; capite mox intra 

 oculos niveo-squamoso, sat crasse punctulato - granuloso ; 

 prothorace valde crasse nee crebre ruguloso-granulato (magis 

 crasse minus crebre quam B. hidentati, Don.), quam longiori 

 sat latiori, in medio canaliculate, niveo-trivittato, lateribus 

 fortiter rotundatis, latitudine majori pone medium posita, 

 basi media fortiter lobata ; elytris ad basin fortiter (quam 

 B. bidentati multo magis fortiter) singulatim lobatis, ad 

 apicem singulatim acuminato-productis (quam B. Jiemisticti, 

 Germ., paullo minus fortiter), antice fortiter granulosis postice 

 fortiter vix crebre (quam B. hemisticti, Germ., paullo minus 

 crasse minus crebre) punctulatis; longitudinaliter leviter 

 bisulcatis (parte intermedia leviter convexis), maculatim 

 niveo-squamosis, maculis antice confusis postice subtriser- 

 iatim ordinatis ; abdomine ad latera dense, in medio confuse 

 maculatim niveo-hirto ; femoribus anticis muticis posticis 

 segmenti ventralis secundi partem mediam attingentibus. 

 Long, (rostr. incl.), 7 1.; lat.. If 1. 

 Allied to B. semipunctatus, Fab., and hemistictus, Germ., 

 differing from both inter alia by its mutic femora, and the 

 absence of any trace of an elytral carina; also near B. amplicollis, 

 Jekel, but differing by its black antennae andtibiis; also (perhaps) 

 near B. anguinens, Pasc. (which is insufficiently described), but 

 differing from the description by its decidedly transverse pro- 

 thorax. The elytra are not at all elevated at the base of the 

 scutellum. The third joint of the antennce is distinctly longer 

 than the fourth. 

 Eraser Range. 

 B. ventralis, sp. nov. Elongatus, sat angustatus, sat parallelus ; 

 niger, squamis niveis ornatus, pedibus elytrisque nonnihil 

 rufescentibus ; rostro cylindrico leviter arcuato quam pro- 



