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thorax sat longiori subtiliter sat crebre punctulato ; capite 

 inter oculos trivittatim niveo-squamoso, granuloso ; pro- 

 thorace sat fortiter nee crebre (quam B. hideniati manifeste 

 minus crebre) granuloso, quam latiori fere longiori, in medio 

 leviter canaliculate et interrupte niveo-scjuamoso, in disco 

 utrinque maculis nonnullis niveis ornato, lateribus leviter 

 arcuatis, basi fortiter bisinuata ; elytris ad basin sat fortiter 

 (fere ut B. bidentaii, Don.) singulatim lobatis, ad apicem 

 singulatim acuminato-productis ((juam B. hemistieti, Germ., 

 vix minus fortiter), sat fortiter sat crebre (fere ut 7^, scalaris, 

 Germ.) granulo.so-punctulatis, fere ut prscedentis (^iJ. Ilelmsi) 

 squamis niveis ornatis ; abdomine ad latera dense niveo- 

 hirto in segmentorum singulorum medio maculis singulis 

 trifidis (ut B. scalaris, Germ.) niveo-hirtis ornato, femoribus 

 anticis muticis, posticis segmenti ventralis basalis apicem 

 vix attingentibus. Long., <S 1.; lat., l-S~ 1. 



Very close to B. scalaris, Germ., but certainly not, T think, a 

 mere variety. It differs in the much more nitid and less con- 

 spicuously punctulate rostrum, in the prothorax longer and less 

 rounded laterally (in the same sex), and especially in the white 

 pilosity on the elytra not being confined to the sutural region, 

 but forming three rows of spots on each elytron, with other spots 

 added in the basal parb. If it should prove to be a variety of 

 scalaris the very different )narkings of the elytra would justify 

 its being a named variety. It is not quite so narrow and elongate 

 as B. scalaris. 

 Fraser Range. 



^■/rafer, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; sat angustus ; niger, squamis 

 niveis ornatus, rostro elytris pedibusque plus minusve rufes- 

 centibus ; rostro cylindrico leviter arcuato quam prothorax 

 paullo longiori, subtiliter (maris) vel subtilissime (feminas) 

 punctulato ; capite mox intra oculos niveo-squamoso, ut pro- 

 thorax crebre nee crasse granuloso ; prothorax leviter trans- 

 verso, sat late canaliculato (canali dense niveo-squamoso), 

 lateribus postice sat rotundatis, basi fortiter bisinuata ; 

 elytris ut pr;ecedentis (B. ventralis) sed pone scutellum 

 leviter gibbosis, plus minusve (omnium exemplorum sutura 

 dense) crebre maculis niveis squamosis ornatis ; abdomen 

 fere ut B. ventralis ; femoribus anticis subtus ante apicem 

 bidentatis, posticis segmenti ventralis basalis apicem vix 

 attingentibus. Long. (rost. inch), 6 — 8 1. ; lat., 1 — If 1. 



,," ^he male the rostrum is more strongly punctured than 

 — e remale, and the anterior femora are much less 



This 



in 

 incrassate. 



species is so close to the preceding that if T had not 



both sexes of it I should have hesitated 



to distinguish it specific- 



