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of the narrow median longitudinal line of dense pilosity which in 

 that species traverses the otherwise-thinly pilose space between 

 the lateral vittre. The bright-red colour of the anterior two- 

 thirds of the rostrum seems constant The small size and the 

 scarcely-produced apex of the elytra at once distinguish this 

 species from B. regnlis. 



S. Australia ; on tlie hills near Adelaide. 



*B. 



distinctus, sp. nov. (Mas.) Angustissimus; parallelus ; niger, 

 squamis niveis ornatus ; rostro postice crasse antice sat 

 subtiliter punctulato, quam prothorax parum longiori, 

 cylindrico, arcuato ; antennarum articulis 3° quam 4'" sub- 

 longiori ; capite prothoraceque minus crebre granulosis (fere 

 ut £. scalaris. Germ.), hoc inter oculos niveo-squamoso ; 

 prothorace quam latiori sublongiori, canaliculato, canali 

 dense niveo-squamoso, lateribus modice arouatis, basi 

 bisinuata ; elytris ad basin modice lobatis (ut B. scalarin, 

 Germ.), ad apicem minus aouminatis baud productis, pone 

 scutellum baud callosis, crasse granuloso-punctulatis (fere ut 

 7i. scalaris, Germ.), vitta densa suturali (fere ntB. suturalis, 

 Boisd.) et serie dorsali macular! bene determinata niveo- 

 squamosis ornatis ; corpore subtus dense niveo-piloso, seg- 

 mentis ventralibus singulis maculis 3 denudatis (maculis 

 medianis triangularibus) ornatis ; femoribus anticis muticis, 

 posticis segment! ventralis basalis apicem liaud attingent- 

 ibus. Long, (rostr. inch), 5J-1.; lat.., a 1. 

 A very pretty species owing to the strong contrast between 

 the black colour of the general surface and tlie white pilosity 

 which forms a continuous stripe from the front of the prothorax 

 to the apex of the suture, and also a longitudinal dorsal row 

 (abbreviated in front) of small sharply-defined spots. The 

 pattern on the ventral segments is much like tliat in 

 B. abdominalis, but the denuded spots are much larger, the 

 middle one on each segment (especially on the basal two seg- 

 ments) being of an elongate triangular shape. 



S. Australia; Eyre's Peninsula. 

 *B. tibialis, sp. nov. (Mas.) Sat elongatus ; postice angustatus ; 

 rufus, squamis setuliformibus niveis vestitus, his in corpore 

 supra (nisi in prothoracis canali et scutello) loqualiter 

 sparsim in corpore subtus (nisi ad sternorum. latera) 

 ajquaUter modice dense in scutello prothoracisque canali et 

 ad sternorum latera densissime dispositis, segmentis ven- 

 tralibus singulis macula parva mediana denudata ornatis, 

 capite rostro antennisque pioeis, elytrorum sutura infuscata ; 

 rostro sat graoili sat cylindrico sat fortiter arcuato, (juam 

 prothorax longiori subtiliter (postice magis fortiter) punctu- 



