BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1455 
The present insect differs from J/. leucura, Pasc., inter alia by 
the absence of tubercles on the elytra. 
Xorthem Teriitory of S. Austraba ; a single specimen taken by 
Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
Belus. 
B. INSIPIDUS, sp.nov. 
Is iger, squamulis albidis variegatus ; prothorace canaliculato 
(canali albido-pubescenti), fortiter granulato (fere tuberculato) ; 
elytris crasse profunde subinigulose punctulatis, juxta suturam 
subdepressis, apice productis attenuatis, punctis parvis albido- 
hirtis confuse omatis ; subtus stemis et latera versus segmentis 
ventralibus albido-hirsutis ; femoribus anticis obscure dentatis. 
[Long, (rostr. inch) 6?, lat. 1? lines. 
Very similar in shape to B. hemistictus, Germ., but vrith the 
antennse very much shorter (they scarcely exceed the rostrum in 
length ), the elytra slightly dilated immediately behind the middle, 
devoid of a carina, much more coarsely sculptured and gently 
convex longitudinally on either side of the suture, and much more 
confusedly sprinkled -with spots (vrhich are all small) of pale 
pubescence (these spots being scarcely more concentrated in one 
part than in another) ; also the underside is marked differently 
from that of hemistictus. 
The rostrum is stout, cyiindric, arched, shining, and finely 
punctulate throughout, being rather longer than the prothorax ; 
the head is very coarsely rugulose-punctulate, the orbits lined with 
pale pubescence ; the prothorax is at its base a little wider than 
its length down the middle, bears a wide well-defined longitudinal 
channel which is clothed with pale pubescence, and is sculptured 
even more coai-sely than the head, the intervals between the 
punctures being quite tuberculiform ; the scutellum is clothed with 
pale pubescence. On the undereide the median part of the sterna 
Ls thinly and the lateral thickly clothed with pale pubescence, 
the middle part of the ventral segments is glabi-ous and shining 
while a large spot of pale pubescence occupies either side of each 
segment, but these sjKjts are scarcely united one with another into 
