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subtus minute bidentatis, posticis segmenti secundi ventralis 

 partem median attigentibus. Long, (rostv. incl.), 7i — 91 1. ; 

 lat., 1-tV— 1 J 1. " " ■ 



A large and liandsonie species, at once distinguishable by the 

 unusual marlvings of its elytra, which consist of a continuous 

 ashy-wliite vitta on either side of the suture extending from the 

 base to the apex, and a yellow vitta (abbreviated near the base 

 and apex) not far from the lateral margin. Tliese vittte appear 

 to be sprinkled with minute dark spots owing to the granules of 

 the elytra protruding through them. In form and sculpture this 

 species is extremely close to B. suturalis, Boisd., but it diifers 

 totally in colour and markings, and also in the presence of a well- 

 defined hump behind the scutellum. It also probably resembles 

 JB. subparallelus, Jekel (which I have not to my knowledge seen), 

 but is evidently distinct from it, as inter alia that species is 

 described as " supra violaceo-niger, antennis rufis," and the nar- 

 rowness of its prothorax (which is even called " subcylindrioo- 

 conic ") is particularly mentioned, none of which expressions fit 

 the present insect. The third and fourth joints of the antennae 

 are of about equal length. The male differs from the female by 

 its more slender front femora, the stouter basal joint of its 

 antennw, and the less fine puncturation of tlie base of its rostrum. 



S. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula ; on Cnsuarina. 



*B. AdelaidcB, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; parallelus ; piceus, 

 squamis cinereis vittatim ornatus, rostro (basi excepta) liete 

 sanguineo, antennis tibiis elytrisque plus minusve rufescent- 

 ibus ; rostro quam prothorax longiori, arouato, subtilissime 

 (basin versus minus subtiliter) punctulato ; capite pro- 

 tliorace et elytris ut B. regalis squamosis, sed squamis 

 omnibus cinereis, in prothorace vittis lateralibus minus 

 perspicuis ; capite et prothorace ut B. regalis granulosis ; 

 prothorace vix transverso, sat fortiter canaliculato, lateribus 

 a basi fere ad apicem fortiter rotundatis, basi bisinuata; 

 elytris ad basin minus fortiter lobatis, ad apicem acuminatis 

 vix productis, pone scutellum hand callosis, sat crebre antice 

 granulosis postice punctulatis ; corpore subtus ad latera 

 dense in medio minus dense niveo-piloso, mox intra partem 

 dense niveo-squamosam linea gracili fere continua denudata 

 ornato ; femoribus anticis subtus bidentatis, posticis seg- 

 menti secundi ventralis partem mediam fere attingentibus. 

 Long, (rostr. inch), 5 — 5i 1. ; lat., 4 — 1 1. 



The squamose markings of the upper-surface are almost exactly 

 as m B. regalis, the scales, however, being all of an ashy colour, 

 and ^ those forming the lateral vittre of the prothorax being less 

 distinct. The markings of the uiider-surface differ in the absence 



