BY E. AV. FERGUSON. 113 



9 . Ovate, size moderate. Black, densely clothed with 

 brown, head with a thin median line bifurcate on rostrum, 

 supraocular vittae and feeble prothoracic vittse white, elytra 

 maculate with white ; beneath with a few yellow scales in 

 middle of the segments. 



Head convex, forehead feebly concave, densely clothed and 

 rather strongly setigero-punctate. Rostrum short, excavate, 

 external ridges subparallel, coarsely punctate, internal obso- 

 lete ; median area smooth, not shining, base bifoveate. Scrobes 

 not extending to eye. Eyes subrotundate. Prothorax (4"5 x 6 

 mm.) transverse, postocular sinuosity open; closely granulate, 

 granules small, not contiguous, slightly larger in centre. 

 Elytra (11x8 mm.) gently rounded on sides, somewhat flat- 

 tened on disc, apex strongly rounded, base feebly arcuate, 

 humeral angles with obtuse nodule not produced ; disc punc- 

 tato-striate, punctures small, intrastrial ridges not granu- 

 late, interstices granulate in single series, duplicated on basal 

 half of third, on second only reaching to declivity and more 

 spaced out, on fourth only reaching to middle, sutural granules 

 fine throughout. Beneath, three terminal segments coarsely 

 punctate ; fifth with a shallow transverse impression at extreme 

 apex enclosing two small subcontiguous nodules. Dimensions : 

 $.17 X 8 mm. 



Hah. — West Australia. 



In assigning the name T. Roei Bohem., to the above species, 

 I am doing so on the evidence of two specimens lent by the 

 British Museum authorities, one of which was labelled "T. 

 Roei, compared with type." This is not the species commonly 

 named T. Roei in Australian cabinets, which is a species of 

 the T. pustulatus-type. 



The exact position of T. Roei is, in my opinion, somewhat 

 doubtful ; I have thought it best to group it with T. tessellatus 

 Pasc, but it possibly may be an aberrant member of the 

 tuberculate section, as, in its rostrum and ventral segments, it 

 approaches T. funereus Pasc. Unfortunately I do not know 

 the male. 



