BY E. AV. FERGUSON. 109 



between each with a small granule, interstices with small 

 granules obscured by clothing- Beneath very feebly impressed 

 at apex. Legs as in preceding species. Dimensions : cT, 15 x 

 6-5 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Close to the preceding, but larger and with different cloth- 

 ing, especially on the undersurface. I have but a single male, 

 which came originally from Mr. C. French, and is dated 

 1893. I received it among the Amycterides given to me by 

 Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



Talaurinus pulverulentus, Macl., loc. cit., p. 223. 



cf. Small, elongate. Black, rather densely clothed with 

 sooty scales feebly variegated with brown and grey ; setae short, 

 black. 



Head convex, densely clothed with yellowish-grey scales, 

 with a brown patch on either side of middle. Rostrum witli 

 greyish scales, external ridges subparaJlel, internal rather 

 more prominent, slightly convergent ; median area rather 

 strongly canaliculate. Scrobes deep, open posteriorly. Eyes 

 small, round. Antennae with scrobes short (1-5 mm.), 

 thickened and curved; club long. Prothorax (3x4 mm.) 

 rather strongly dilate on sides, apex with a well marked post- 

 ocular sinuosity ; disc with a feeble, irregular, transverse im- 

 pression behind apex ; granules small, hemispherical, fairly 

 closely, though somewhat irregularly, placed; sides granulate. 

 Elytra (8x5 mm.) gently rounded on sides, base subtruncate, 

 humeral angles marked by small granules ; punctato-striate, 

 punctures small, open; interstices little raised, with small, 

 irregular, elevated points, obsolete and barely traceable, 

 hardly granulate, each with a long seta : at sides more definite- 

 ly granulate, setae in single series except in middle of third. 

 Metasternum with a nipple-like projection on either side : 

 intermediate ventral segments long : fifth segment with a 

 feeble longitudinal depression ; a median vitta of dark brown 

 setse present. Legs simple. /Ji/i/f^iisio/is : cf, 13x5 mm. 



