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Variable in the sagi: of the elytra. The — suture 
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pubescence ; the rest of the surface (a broad discal patch not 
reaching the base) is of lighter colour and is variegated with 
whitish and slightly reddish pubescence not differing much in 
colour, but each shade running any so as to give a 
faintly striped appearance ; abraded examples have black elytra 
ish discal vitta not reaching the base. The 
antenne have their fifth and following joints much wider in 
comparison with the fourth joint than in the species described 
ing of a stem of 
species stands beside B. despicatus, Lea, from which it differs 
inter alia by the basal four (not three) goes of its antenn:e 
testaceous and Der series of serrate joints beginning with the 
fifth (not the four 
S. Australia ; ek 
B. fabe, Fab. I presume that abe eg which Mr. Tryon 
reported (Tr. Nat. Hist. Ban Brisban l L)as B. obtectus, 
ay, is this pene Mr. Tryon does eem say why he prefers 
Say's name; it is to be noted however that it is later than that 
B. pisi, Linu. In a note to his remarks on Bruchus (loc. cit.) 
a mentions B. pisi (without an author's eg apparently as 
the same species which in the note he calls py 
B. persimulans, sp. nov. Niger, Sr "thia nonnullorum 
emplorum articulos 6°—10° plus minusve infuscatos 
prebentibus) pedibusque (horum femoribus posticis basin 
versus et tarsorum articulo ultimo obscuris) testaceis, veda 
rufis nigro-cinctis (apice rufo excepto); sat equaliter cine 
pubescens ; antennarum articulis 4^— 10^ sat robustis leviter 
subtiliter sculpturatis, vix asperis ; cetera ut B. quornensis. 
g^ 
xcept in respect of the characters mentioned above, the 
description of B quornensis applies to this species also. The 
