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This species, belonging to the group of Bel. semipunctatus , F. and 
Bel. hemistictus , Germ., has the elytra much narrower, more elongate 
and parallel, much less attenuate posteriorly, with their apex much less 
produced, the tail being much shorter and obtuse, even more so than in 
Bel. bispinosus , Perr.; their outline being almost as in Bel. scalaris , 
Germ, and Bel. suturalis , Boisd. Thorax shaped as in Bel. semipunc¬ 
tatus , still less produced in the middle of the apex, a little broader, 
consequently still more conically ampliate near the base, which cha¬ 
racter, combined with the narrowness of the elytra, increases its pro¬ 
portional width. Elytra strongly depressed along the suture, but 
the elevated longitudinal limit of that depression is broadly convex, 
showing no appearance of the subcostiform line so well marked in Bel. 
semipunctatus , and still observable in Bel. hemistictus; the base of the 
suture close to the scutellum is a little callose, but less than in Bel. 
bispinosus , also less elevated than the scutellum. 
Belus subparallelus, Jekel. 
Elongatus , parallelus , supra violaceo-niger , subtus piceus ; roslro apice 
pedibusque extrorsum brunnescentibus , antennis rufis; frontis villis 
duabus ocularibus , thoracis lineis tribus dorsalibus subparallelis , 
elytri singuli vitta angusta subsuturali anterius maculiformi linea - 
que dorsali e maculis parvis numerosis composita , vitta lata lateri- 
bus corporis alteraque media abdominis albo-jlavescenli squamosis ; 
fronte luxe rugoso-granuloso ; thorace angusto subconico granulato , 
medio canaliculato ; elytris ad suturam paulo impressis absque 
linea elevata, juxta scutellum transversim carinato-elevatum cal- 
losis , apice sat productis , punctato-rugosis; femoribus anticis 
subtus transversim bidentatis . 
Long, (rostr. 2 t ? 0 —3 mill, excl.) 13—14; thor. 2 ; elytr. (cum cauda 
1 —1^ mill.) 10—11. Lat. thor. ante bas. 2^; elytr. parall. 
2 fg—2^ mill. 
Patria: Richmond River. Mus. D. Bowring, Deyrolle, Sauuders et 
Jekel. 
