COLEOPTERA. 
evidently belongs to a natural group, the type of which is our European 
species Rhynch. pubescens.* Rostrum more than half narrower than the 
forehead, and more than twice than the head itself, widely smooth along 
its middle. Head rather coarsely and remotely punctate on the fore¬ 
head and the anterior part of the vertex, smoother and very thinly 
transversely strigose on the occiput. Thorax truncate at the apex, with 
a shallow transverse impression behind it (obsolete in the male) ; punc¬ 
tures slight on the disk, more distant and stronger at the sides; base 
slightly sinuate and rounded at the middle, thinly marginate. Scu- 
tellum small, apparently subquadrate, somewhat longer than broad, 
narrowed posteriorly, with the angles obtuse, canaliculate lengthwise, 
the canaliculation deeper at the apex, forming a kind of indentation. 
Elytra subtruncate and more than a half larger than the thorax at the 
base ; shoulders raised, roundly angular ; sides somewhat straightened 
behind the shoulders, then roundly ampliate behind the middle; widely 
rounded to the apex ; each elytron obtusely angulose at the apex of the 
suture; elongate, little convex above, deeply transversely impressed 
behind the scutellum ; 18—20 rows of slight punctures, of which the 
sutural and marginal are striate. Pilosity of the body almost every¬ 
where perpendicular to the derm, except at the apex of the elytra 
and body beneath, where it is rather inclined. 
Genus BELUS, Sch. 
This Australian genus, as understood by Schonherr, is now nu¬ 
merous in species, and its distinctive characters from Rhinotia , Kirby, 
* Body suboblong, slightly punctate, shining, bearing a long thin 
pubescent villosity. Head quadrate, with the eyes small, semiglobose, 
lateral, exserted, beating very little on the forehead, which is broad, 
obliquely retuse to the rostrum ; this organ much narrower. Scutellum 
small, oblong-quadrate, longitudinally canaliculate. Pygidium totally 
covered by the elytra in the normal station of the abdomen, &c. 
(Lasiorhynchit.es), 
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