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This species, tomentose underneath, like Belus bispinosus , Pen*., and 
above, like Belus scalaris , Germ., has the thorax shaped like Bel. semi- 
punctatus, F., Bel. hemistictus, Germ, and Bel. amplicollis , Huj. Op., 
and the elytra almost like Bel. Phcenicopterus , Germ., but with their 
posterior attenuation less abrupt than in any other species, beginning 
very little behind the middle. Thorax with no latero-dorsal impression 
nor whitish line consequently j for the rest, as in the above compared 
species, even a little shorter proportionally. Elytra slightly depressed 
along the suture and very obtusely elevated outside that depression; 
suture thinly whitish tomentose, with small and distant dots outside and 
near this line, and of the same colour. In rubbed-off specimens, 
however, these dots are more or less obsolete. 
Belus filum, Jekel. 
Valde elongatus , angustissimus , Jiliformis ; rufus , capite circa oculos , 
thorace linea media , scutello, sutura postice corporeque subtus albo- 
jlavescente tomentosis ; rostro cylindrico par urn arcuato apice cum 
ore nigricante; capite elongato , antice ruguloso , oculis nigris ; 
thorace lateribus rolundato , concinne punctato-ruguloso , canalicula 
tenui; elytris basi subtruncatis et marginalise apice singulatim 
anguste rotundatis , concinne pnnctato-rugosis; femoribus anticis 
muticis. 
Long, (rostr. 1 T 2 5 —1 T 3 5 excl.) 8—8 T 6 5 ; thor. 1 T 3 5 ; elytr. 6^—6f 5 . Lat. 
thor. paulo pone med. 1-&; elytr. l T 3 g mill. 
Patria : N. S. Wales. Mus. D. Bowring, Saunders et Jekel. 
Extremely allied to Bel. Jiliformis , Germ., but smaller, differently 
coloured and squamose ; antennae proportionally longer; head more 
elongate, hardly shorter than wide, its transverse impression shallower, 
not close to the eyes, but nearer to the base ; rugosities of the forehead 
and thorax smaller, more numerous, and, as it were, less granuliform; 
elytra more finely punctate-rugulose, See. 
