116 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDES, li., 



I know of no species that approaches this one in the struc- 

 ture of the rostrum, and in the curiously sulcate ventral sur- 

 face. It belongs, like T. clavxcornis, to a group which will 

 probably be found to be fairly numerous in New South Wales 

 and Queensland, and is characterised by the possession of a 

 greatly thickened or inflated scape. In the present species, the 

 form of the scape is suggestive of that possessed by species of 

 Bubaris. 



Talaurinus squamosus Macl., loc. cit., p. 219. 



cf . Small, elongate, narrow. Black, densely clothed with 

 muddy brown scales, interspersed with lighter grey ; prothorax 

 trivittate, elytra maculate, the light scales forming longitudi- 

 nal vittge near sides ; sides and legs with greyish scales ; setge 

 dark brown. 



Head convex, separately so from rostrum, but without a 

 marked sulcus between. Rostrum verv little excavate, exter- 

 nal ridges slightly divergent, basally flattened; internal pro- 

 minent, raised posteriorly, separated throughout by median 

 area; lateral sulci shallow. Scrobes open posteriorly. Eyes 

 large, subovate. Prothorax (4x4 mm.) evenly rather feebly 

 rounded, postocular sinuosity feeble, apex truncate above ; a 

 taint transverse collar-impression ; finely granulate, granules 

 discrete, obsolete along vittae ; sides granulate. Elytra (G-f) x 5 

 mm.; elongate-ovate, base truncate, humeral angles not 

 marked ; each elytron with three broad sulciform striae, each 

 containing two rows of punctures obscured by clothing ; inter- 

 stices raised, finely granulate in double series, granules 

 obscured by clothing, setigerous, sutural less prominent ; sides 

 punctato-striate, interstices not granulate. Beneath flat, spar- 

 ingly clothed with scattered setae ; intermediate segments long, 

 fifth with a feeble transverse impression at apex. Legs simple. 

 Dimensions : (J.13"o x 5 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales : Riverina. 



A common species in the south of New South Wales ; also, 

 T believe, occurring in Victoria. It may be readily recognised 



