BY E. W. FERGUSON. Ill 



vitta present : intermediate segments comparatively long, 

 apical almost without any impression. Metasterniim without 

 tubercles. Legs simple. /)imension>! : cfi 10 x 4 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland : Gayndah(Type in Australian Museum). 



In general appearance closely resembling T. jjulverulentus, 

 but distinguished, infer aim, by the absence of metasternal 

 tubercles, and by the different scape. From T. inconspicuus, 

 the smaller size and the presence of a median vitta beneath 

 should be sufficient to separate it. Two females in the Macleay 

 Museum appear to belong to this species : they have the an- 

 tennal scape rather wider, in this respect approaching T. pid- 

 verulentus. 



Talaurinus tessellatus Pascoe. 



Pascoe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xii., 1873, p. 16. 



9 ■ Ovate, robust, size moderate. Densely clothed with 

 silaceous scales ; head with median vitta bifurcate on rostrum 

 and supraorbital vittse : prothorax trivittate, elytra strongly 

 maculate with whitish, beneath with white and yellow scales 

 along sides and in middle of each segment; setae brown. 



Head convex, forehead not excavate, densely clothed. Ros- 

 trum short and thick, external ridges subparallel, setigero- 

 punctate, internal obsolete ; median area not raised, Isevigate, 

 densely clothed along sides ; lateral sulci shallow, with small 

 deeper foveae at base. Scrobes short and deep. Eyes ovate. 

 Prothorax (5 x 6 mm.) rounded, apical margin produced into 

 a moderately definite median lobe, ocular lobes feeble ; disc 

 with numerous fine setigerous granules, not contiguous, 

 median line without granules ; sides granulate. Elytra (12x8 

 mm.) ovate, apex rather strongly rounded, base feebly arcu- 

 ate, humeral angles not produced but marked by a small 

 nodule : disc foveo-striate, foveae open, shallow, obscured by 

 clothing, no intrastrial granules present : interstices finely 

 setigero-granulate, for the most part in single series, dupli- 



