BY E. W. FERGUSON. 121 



Talaurinus humeralis Macl., loc. cif., p. 224. 



2\ nodulosus Macl., loc. cit., p. 223. 



cf. Size moderate, ovate. Black densely clothed with brown 

 above, yellowish on sides and beneath. 



Head strongly convex, densely clothed with dark scales 

 becoming lighter externally, median line bare. Rostrum 

 deeply sulcate in middle, rather narrower than usual, external 

 ridges somewhat convergent, internal moderately prominent, 

 lateral sulci shallow. Scrobes open posteriorly. Eyes sub- 

 rotundate. Prothorax (4x5 mm.) rounded on sides, apey 

 with the postocular sinuosity deep, lateral lobes well defined, 

 median line impressed, sulciform ; collar-impression feeble, 

 except at sides ; granules prominent, nitid, irregular in size 

 and unevenly set, sides granulate above. Elytra (11x8 mm.) 

 greatly dilated from ba.se to behind middle, apex strongly 

 rounded ; base narrow, deeply emarginate, with the humeral 

 angles strongly produced ; disc foveo-striate, fovese moderately 

 deep and well defined, interstices barely traceable as such, but 

 with small granules ; granules also present on the interfoveal 

 ridges, all of a black subnitid appearance, many of the fovese 

 confluent laterally. Intermediate ventral segments short ; 

 fifth deeply excavate, the excavation a boat-shaped fossa at 

 apex : above the fossa, separated by a distinct edge, is a shal- 

 lower depression, bounded on either side by a distinct carina, 

 and with a third median one. Anterior femora with a faint 

 ridge beneath. Dimensions: cf. 16-5 x 8 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Victoria River. (Type in Australian 

 Museum) — N.S.Wales: Coonabarabran, Wellington. 



The above description is taken from the type-specimen of T. 

 humeralis. T. nodulosus, cT., appears to be a deformed speci- 

 men of the same species ; the female, under the label of T. 

 nodulosus, is, however, a different species, and seems to me to 

 be a female of T. papulosus. I have regarded the name, T. 

 humeralis, as preferable, though T. nodulosus has priority of 

 a page, because the latter is founded on a deformed specimen. 



