diff --git a/cassandra/deserializers.pyx b/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
index d3645a32..3967ea14 100644
--- a/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
+++ b/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ cdef class DesBytesType(Deserializer):
     cdef deserialize(self, Buffer *buf, int protocol_version):
         return to_bytes(buf)
 
-# this is to facilitate cqlengine integration, which requires bytearrays for BytesType
+# this is to facilitate cqlsh integration, which requires bytearrays for BytesType
 # It is switched in by simply overwriting DesBytesType:
 # deserializers.DesBytesType = deserializers.DesBytesTypeByteArray
 cdef class DesBytesTypeByteArray(Deserializer):
diff --git a/tests/integration/standard/test_types.py b/tests/integration/standard/test_types.py
index acac7b81..736e7957 100644
--- a/tests/integration/standard/test_types.py
+++ b/tests/integration/standard/test_types.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 import math
 import six
 
+import cassandra
 from cassandra import InvalidRequest
 from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
 from cassandra.concurrent import execute_concurrent_with_args
@@ -98,6 +99,36 @@ class TypeTests(BasicSharedKeyspaceUnitTestCase):
         for expected, actual in zip(params, results):
             self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(not hasattr(cassandra, 'deserializers'), "Cython required for to test DesBytesTypeArray deserializer")
+    def test_des_bytes_type_array(self):
+        """
+        Simple test to ensure the DesBytesTypeByteArray deserializer functionally works
+
+        @since 3.1
+        @jira_ticket PYTHON-503
+        @expected_result byte array should be deserialized appropriately.
+
+        @test_category queries:custom_payload
+        """
+        original = None
+        try:
+
+            original = cassandra.deserializers.DesBytesType
+            cassandra.deserializers.DesBytesType = cassandra.deserializers.DesBytesTypeByteArray
+            s = self.session
+
+            s.execute("CREATE TABLE blobbytes2 (a ascii PRIMARY KEY, b blob)")
+
+            params = ['key1', bytearray(b'blob1')]
+            s.execute("INSERT INTO blobbytes2 (a, b) VALUES (%s, %s)", params)
+
+            results = s.execute("SELECT * FROM blobbytes2")[0]
+            for expected, actual in zip(params, results):
+                self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+        finally:
+            if original is not None:
+                cassandra.deserializers.DesBytesType=original
+
     def test_can_insert_primitive_datatypes(self):
         """
         Test insertion of all datatype primitives