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approach this one closely, but none that I have seen possess the 

 curious flattened, pavement-like granules on the pronotum. 



Talaurinus suLCivENTiiis, n.sp. 



(Plate ii., fig. 2.) 



cf. Small, briefly oblongate, subparallel. Black, densely 

 clothed with muddy scales, prothorax feebly trivittate, elytra 

 feebly transversely maculate with white. Setae stout, dark 

 brown. 



Head strongly convex, densely clothed, with a few stout 

 setae interspersed, separated from rostrum by a deep trans- 

 verse sulcus. Rostrum short, little excavate, external ridges 

 strongly convex in profile, basally terminated by a distinct 

 hiatus, the prolongation downwards of the basal sulcus ; inter- 

 nal ridges prominent at base ; lateral sulci long, moderately 

 deep ; median area depressed throughout. Scrobes strongly 

 curved, separated from eye by a prolongation of the basal 

 sulcus. Eyes small, subrotundate. Antennae with scape short, 

 strongly thickened to apex, hardly sinuate, but with a strong 

 laminate projection from inner border. Prothorax (4x5 mm.) 

 strongly rounded on sides, apical margin rounded above, ocu- 

 lar lobes rather strongly developed, touching eyes in repose ; 

 evenly and closely set with small, round, contiguous granules, 

 clothed and setigerous ; sides granulate. Elytra (8x5-5 mm.) 

 broad, somewhat flattened above, gently rounded on sides, 

 base rather strongly emarginate, shoulders moderately pro- 

 duced not noduliform ; disc shallowly punctato-striate, punc- 

 tures obscured by clothing ; interstices granulate, the first, 

 third, and fifth somewhat raised, subcostate, with small seti- 

 gerous granules ; second and fourth not raised, and with 

 granules more scattered. Beneath with a strong sulciform de- 

 pression extending over metasternum and first segment, second 

 short, almost equal to third, fifth with a simple shallow depres- 

 sion at apex ; ventral segments rugosely punctate. Legs simple. 

 Dimensions : 12 x 5-5 mm. 



TIab. — Queensland: Roma (E. A. Ferguson). 



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