BY £. W. fERGUSON. 119 



gerous in double series, the intermediate interstices neither 

 raisea nor granulate, but each with a long single row of setae ; 

 sides punctato-striate, interstices granulate. Beneath concave 

 over metasternum and first two ventral segments, convex with 

 a feeble flattening over the others, the flattening on apical 

 segment subquadrate, but hardly impressed; whole of under- 

 surface with fine setigerous punctures. Legs simple. Dimen- 

 sions: (J.14 X 6 mm. 



JidL. — Queensland: Brisbane (T. G. Sloane, R. Illidge, and 

 Queensland Museum). 



A small obscure species, in general appearance resembling 

 a large specimen of T. 'pulverulent us, but without the meta- 

 sternal tubercles. Very close to T . Mef/alonf/ensis, but has the 

 rostrum less excavate, with the internal ridges not meeting, 

 the prothoracic granules rather finer, the intermediate elytral 

 interstices setigerous, and the undersurface much less coarsely 

 setigero-punctate. Each of the ventral segments has a patch 

 of yellowish scales near the sides ; in T. Megalongensis the 

 scales are situated in the centre of each segment. I have 

 recently obtained a female of this species from Mr. Carter ; it 

 difiiers in being larger and more robust (15x7 mm.), and in 

 its convex undersurface without the feeble impression on the 

 apical segment. 



Talaurinus vakiegatus Macl., loc. cit., p. 218. 



cT. Of broad, robust, subparallel form. Black, clothed 

 above with greyish scales, prothorax feebly trivittate, elytra 

 maculate with white. 



Head convex. Rostrum short, wide, little excavate, apical 

 emargination deep ; external ridges subparallel, somewhat flat- 

 tened ; internal feeble, slightly more prominent than internal 

 at base ; lateral sulci long, not deep, median area feebly cari- 

 nate. Scrobes short, simple. Eye ovate. Mandibles with 

 outer portion produced into a stout obtuse divergent horn. 

 Prothorax (5 x 5*5 mm.) subrotundate, median and ocular 

 lobes well defined, collar-impression feebly marked above ; 



