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usually greater than that behind the base. The typical example 

 is distinguished from its nearest allies by the distinctly reddish 

 tone of the elytra and legs, and by the paucity of its whitish 

 scales, which form small spots placed at long intervals along the 

 suture, and a few not very conspicuous spots sparsely sprinkled 

 over the rest of the surface ; but it is quite possible that these 

 characters of colour and vestiture are not constant. The whole 

 of the under-surface being mottled with denuded spots, so that 

 there is no continuous white stripe, is likely to be a reliable 

 character. The third and fourth joints of the antenna' are 

 almost equal in length. 



Soutli Austraha ; Eyre's Peninsula. 



*7?. mundus, sp. nov. Sat angustus ; parallelus ; piceo-niger, 



squamis niveis ornatus, antennis pedibusque paullo rufes- 



centibus ; rostro cylindrico quam prothorax vix longion, 



pone antennarum basin ut capite prothoraceque opaco sat 



crebre granuloso-ruguloso, antice nitido fere lievigato ; 



antennis sat brevibus, articulis 3° 4° que longitudine inter 



se sat ffiqualibus ; capite mox intra oculos niveo-squanioso ;. 



prothorace leviter transverse, canaliculate), canali niveo- 



squamoso ; lateril)us a basi fere ad apicem fortiter rotund- 



atis, basi fortiter bisinuata ; elytris ad basin sat fortiter 



(fere ut li. scalaris, Germ.) lobatis, ad apicem singulatim 



rotundatis baud productis, sat crebre (quam B. scalarts, 



paullo minus fortiter) rugulosis, maculatim niveo-squamosis, 



maculis juxta suturam majoribus magis crebris ; corpore 



subtus ad latera dense in parte mediana minus dense niveo- 



piloso, hao maculatim subdenudata ; femoribus anticis 



subtus sat fortiter bidentatis, posticis segmenti ventralis 



basalis apicem vix superantibus. Long, (rostr. inch), '>i- I; 



lat., 1 1. 



This is a very cylindric and parallel species, but not extremely 



slender or narrow, its shape being very much as in £. scalaris, 



G-erm., albeit not quite so elongate. Its elytra scarcely at all 



produced (much less than in S. scalaris, thougli evidently more 



so than in S. hruvneus, Gu(;r.) at the apex, together with tlie 



presence of strong teeth Ijeneath each of its front femora, 



associates it with a small group of species from all of which it is^ 



very distinct— by the following among other characters :~-from 



B. aphthosus, Pasc, by its transverse prothorax, from brunneushy 



the character already mentioned, from serpens, Pasc, by there 



being two teeth (not only one) beneath its front femora. One or 



two others of Mr. Pascoe's briefly-described species may possibly 



belong to the same group, as their author does not say whether 



the femora are dentate, but even in that case they evidently 



(judging from description) differ in respect of other characters. 



