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ilerniuerua. 

 Ann;ustiis ; parallelus 



; vufo-piceus 

 rostro cylin- 



sat subtiliter 

 ariitennarum 



I think the example before uie is a female, but do not feel quite 

 sure, as the front femora are more inorassate than in the males 

 of most species, but rather slightly so for a female ; the sculpture 

 of the rostrum is suggestive of the male. 

 Interior of S. Australia : 



*i?. abdominalis, sjj. nov. 



squamis niveis ornatus, pedibus dilutioribus ; 



drioo quam prothorax vix longiori, sat nitido, 



punctulato (maris postice magis fortiter); 



articulis 3° 4'^ que longitudine inter se sat fequalibus; capite 



sparsim niveo-squamoso, granuloso-punctulato ; prothorace 



quain longiori vix latiori, sat crebre (fere ut B. scalaris, 



0-erm.), granuloso,leviter canaliculato, oanali niveo-squamoso, 



lateribus a basi fere ad apicem sat rotundatis, basi fortiter 



bisinuata; elytris ad basin modioe (pauUo minus fortiter 



quam B. scalaris) lobatis, ad apicem singulatim acuminatis 



vix productis, sat fortiter (fere ut B. scalaris) punctulato- 



rugulosis, sparsim maculatim niveo-squamosis (prajsertim 



juxta suturam); corpore subtus ajqualiter niveo-piloso, 



maculis rotundatis denudatis ornatis, his in metasterno biseri- 



atim in abdomine triseriatim longitudinaliter dispositis ; 



femoribus anticis mutiois, posticis segment! ventralis basalis 



apicem nullo modo attingentibus. Ijong. (rosti-. inch), 



41-51].; lat.,-§-V'.l- 



A very narrow elongate species, perhaps closely allied to the 



very insufficiently described B. farinarius, Pasc, and B. veiusius, 



Pasc, but I do not think it can be identical with either of tliem, 



as Mr. Pascoe calls the latter " modice elongatus," and says of 



the former that it is " sliorter than B. vetustus," the present 



species being a very elongate one, even more so than B. filiformis, 



vrermar. Mr. Pascoe gives no information as to whether the 



femora of those two species are dentate beneath. He describes 



the abdomen of B. farinaritis as having "four denuded spots on 



each side " which does not fit the present insect, it having in 



addition four round denuded spots along the middle line. This 



pattern on the ventral segments, each of the first four segments 



having a transverse row of three sharply defined round denuded 



spots, distinguishes the present species from all its near allies. 



W. Australia ; taken by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



B. elegans, sp. nov. Sat angustus ; parallelus ; piceus, squamis 



cmereis ornatus, rostri apice rufo ; rostro cylindrico arcuato 



quam prothoi'ax manifeste longiori, sat nitido, subtilissime 



punctulato ; antennarum articulo 3° quam 4"' sublongiori ; 



capite sparsim subtiliter granuloso, inter oculos sparsim 



cinereo-squamoso , prothorace quam latiori \-ix longiori, sat 



