BY E. W. FERGUSON. 107 



9 . Similar to cT, but more ovate, beneath with a small 

 longitudinal median impression on apical segment. Dimen- 

 sions: cf, 12 X 6 mm.; 11-5 x 5 mm. 



HaO. — Victoria. Type in Macleay Museum. 



Readily distinguished among its immediate congeners by 

 the form of the anal excavation. Its nearest ally appears to 

 be T. sinipUcipes Lea, which, however, has the excavation 

 more transverse, and the tubercles farther apart. 



T. Victorice was founded on a lax'ge female (13 x 5.\) of the 

 same species ; the two specimens under the label in the Mac- 

 leay Museum appear both to be females. 



Talaurinus septentrionalis, n.sp. 

 (Plate ii., fig. 3.) 



cf. Small, elongate-ovate. Black, rather densely clothed 

 with brown, variegated with lighter and darker patches on 

 elytra, head densely clothed, feebly trivittate,* probhorax with 

 a narrow median vitta, and broader lateral ones ; setse dark 

 reddish-brown ; beneath a narrow median black vitta present. 



Head strongly convex, not continued on to rostrum in same 

 direction, rather thickly setigerous. Rostrum short, excavate ; 

 external ridges j^arallel, internal short, but equally promi- 

 nent, convergent but not meeting ; median area strongly de- 

 pressed throughout, widened out in front, basal sulci deeply 

 foveate. Scrobes simple, deep. Prothorax (3-5 x 4-5 mm.) 

 rather strongly dilate, subangulate ; apex rounded above, with 

 a rather pronounced postocular sinuosity ; disc with a strong 

 transverse apical impression and an impressed median line, 

 densely set with moderately small granules obscured by cloth- 

 ing. Elytra (8x6 mm.) evenly rounded on sides, apex rather 

 strongly rounded, base feebly arcuate, angles not prominent ; 

 with rows of small, fairly well-defined punctures, the inter- 

 vening partitions setose but not raised ; sutural, at base, third 

 and fifth interstices most prominent, with numerous long setae 

 in double series, hardly granulate ; second, fourth, and sixth 

 with setae in single series ; sides with interstices feebly granu- 



