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by its narrow, depressed form, by its dense clothing, and by 

 the alternate elytral striae being feebly raised, the intermedi- 

 ate ones being quite obsolete. The female closely resembles 

 the male. 



Talaurinus Megalongensis, n.sp. 



(Plate ii., fig. 13.) 



O*. Small, elongate, convex; elytra obsoletely tricostate. 

 Black, opaque ; sparsely clothed with minute scattered greyish 

 scales; setae long, black. 



Head convex, continued into rostrum, rather densely squa- 

 mose, and with scattered setigerous punctures. Rostrum short, 

 little excavate save for a sulcus behind the apical emargina- 

 tion ; external ridges feebly convex in profile, internal promi- 

 nent at base and strongly convergent ; median area wide, little 

 depressed, lateral sulci rather deep ; ridges somewhat coarsely 

 setigero-punctate. Scrobes curved, open posteriorly. Eyes 

 large; oval. Prothorax (3'5 x 4 mm.) widest in front of 

 middle, subangulate, base truncate, apex with a well-defined 

 postocular sinuosity, but with little-defined lobes, collar-im- 

 pression marked; finely granulate, granules slightly depressed, 

 contiguous, irregular along constriction and in middle near 

 base, each with a large setigerous puncture ; sides with smaller 

 granules. Elytra (8-5x5 mm.) subovate, apex not mucronate 

 base feebly arcuate, humeral angles marked, not produced ; 

 disc punctato-striate in double rows, punctures somewhat irre- 

 gular, interstices (including sutural, which is only prominent 

 at base) four in number, subcostiform, the second most 

 prominent and extending to apex, each bearing a double or 

 triple row of small setigerous granules. Sides striate-punctate, 

 interstices not raised, but with minute scattered setigerous 

 points. Undersurface rather closely setigero-punctate, each 

 ventral segment with a feeble condensation of yellowish scales 

 in the centre ; intermediates long, fifth segment with a shallow 

 mesial groove, deepening posteriorly. 



9 . Of broader, more obese form, the elytra wider and con- 

 stricted rather suddenly before apex, the latter more pro- 



