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REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDES, U., 



Talaurinus clavicornis, n.sp. 



(Plate ii., fig. 1.) 



cf . Small, elliptical-elongate. Black, densely clothed with 

 blackish-brown scales, head and prothorax trivittate, elytra 

 maculate with white; setae dark brown. 



Head strongly convex, separately from rostrum, densely 

 clothed and more sparingly setigero-punctate. Rostrum short, 

 little excavate ; external ridges flattened above ; internal short, 

 more prominent at base, basal sulci shallow, median area 

 feebly raised in centre. Scrobes strongly curved, extending 

 almost to eye. Eyes small, round, rather deeply set. Scape 

 short, pedunculate, strongly sinuate and greatly widened to- 

 wards the free extremity, the inner edge obtusely pointed. 

 Prothorax (4 x 4'5 mm.) strongly rounded on sides, apex 

 rounded above, with a feeble postocular sinuosity ; disc with 

 collar-impression most marked laterally, closely and evenly 

 covered with round, flattened granules, having a tessellate 

 appearance, granules clothed and each bearing a long seta. 

 Elytra (8-5 X 5 mm.) evenly rounded, base feebly arcuate, the 

 humeral angles marked, but not produced ; punctato-striate, 

 punctures small, rather open ; interstices of first, third, fifth, 

 and seventh raised, subcostate, with minute subobsolete 

 granules bearing long setae, interstices of second, fourth, and 

 sixth not raised, and with only a few setigerous granules. 

 Beneath flattened, rather coarsely punctate, fifth ventral seg- 

 ment with a moderately deep impression bounded anteriorly 

 on either side by a short elevated ridge. Legs simple. Dimen- 

 sions : (J.12'5 X 5 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Glen Innes (T. G. Sloane). 



Not close to any described species, except possibly T. ■parvus 

 and T. pulverulentus, from which, however, the inflated scape 

 will separate it. From T. sulciventris, though its closest ally, 

 with the exception of some undescribed species, the differences 

 in rostrum and undersurface should be distinctive. As indi- 

 cated above, there are one or two undescribed species which 



