118 REVISION OF IHE AMVCTERIDES, 11., 



duced ; beneath convex, median scales feebly marked, fifth 

 segment with a feeble round impression at apex. Dimensions : 

 (J.,13 X 5 mm.; 9.,14 x 6 ; P.,4 x 4-5; E.,9-5 mm. 



Hab.—'N. S. Wales: Megalong Valley, Blue Mts. (H. J. 

 Carter); Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). 



Close to T. squamosus and the following. From the former, 

 the absence of clothing is distinctive. The differences between 

 this species and T. inconspicuus are pointed out under the 

 latter. 



Talaurinus inconspicuus, n.sp. 



(Plate ii., fig. 12.) 



cT. Small, elliptical, narrow. Black, opaque, sparsely 

 clothed with minute greyish scales feebly condensed on the 

 elytra; head with faint supraocular and median vittse ; elytra 

 with feeble black patches ; setse black. 



Head convex, not markedly separated from rostrum, rather 

 densely clothed, and with numerous scattered setigerous punc- 

 tures, forehead with a moderately deep groove running into a 

 basal median notch. Rostrum short, little excavate, external 

 ridges slightly divergent posteriorly, internal equally promi- 

 nent, long, separated at base by median notch ; lateral sulci 

 long, deep; median area little depressed, without scales in 

 middle. Scrobes convex in outline, not open posteriorly. Eyes 

 subovate. Scape moderate in length. Prothorax (4 x 4-5 mm.) 

 widest in front of middle, subangulate on sides, apex with an 

 open feeble sinuosity ; transversely impressed behind apex, and 

 more narrowly in front of base, median line only evident pos- 

 teriorly ; closely, somewhat irregularly, covered with small 

 rounded setigerous granules ; sides somewhat obsoletely granu- 

 late. Elytra (9x6 mm.) gently rounded on sides, apex 

 rounded, mucronate ; base gently arcuate, humeral angles 

 with a small nodule, but not produced. Disc punctato-striate, 

 the punctures small, open, each accompanied by a long seta 

 above it; interstices only alternately raised, first, third, fifth, 

 and seventh raised, feebly granulate, but rather strongly seti- 



