110 REVISION OF THE AMVCTERIDES, 11., 



llah. — S. Queensland: Daandine (T. G. Sloane), Cunna- 

 mulla (H. Hardcastle). Type in Australian Museum. 



The female of this species resembles the male closely, but 

 lacks the tubercles on the metasternum. The type is a male, 

 but has the under-svuface obscured by dirt : the tubercles, 

 however, can be seen. 



Talaurinus parvus, n.sp. 



(Plate ii., fig. 10.) 



O*. Small, elongate. Black, densely clothed with greyish- 

 brown scales, head with a triangular patch of dark brown on 

 either side of median vitta, elytra feebly maculate with black- 

 ish, below with a median vitta of short black setae ; setae dark 

 brown. 



Head strongly convex, densely clothed and with scattered 

 setae. Rostrum short, deeply excavate ; internal ridges more 

 prominent than external, little convergent ; median area 

 deeply sunken, sulciform, extending to base; lateral sulci 

 long, comparatively shallow. Scrobes rather wide, but not 

 open posteriorly. Eyes small, slightly longer than wide. 

 Scape comparatively long, somewhat incrassate, but not 

 greatly inflated ; second joint of funicle a little longer than 

 third, considerably shorter than first ; club long, thick. Pro- 

 thorax (3 X 3-5 mm.) moderately widely dilate, subangulate, 

 apex with a rather deep postocular sinuosity : collar-constric- 

 tion ill-defined, median line evidently impressed : granulate, 

 the granules small, obscured by clothing, each bearing a long 

 black .seta. Elytra (7x4 mm.) little widened ])osteriorly, apex 

 moderately produced, rounded, base feebly arcuate, humeral 

 angles marked but not produced ; disc with sculpture confused 

 and obscured by clothing, consisting of rows of shallow punc- 

 tures, each subtended by a long seta, interstices feebly raised : 

 the first, third, and fifth more prominent, finely granulate, 

 granules hardly distinct, denoted by long setae : sides more 

 definitely punctate, interstices more evidently granulate. 

 Beneath flat, with scattered setigerous punctures, median 



