BY E. W. FERGUSON. 123 



a punctiform depression; sparingly setose. Rostrum moder- 

 ately long, narrow, strongly excavate, external ridges conver- 

 gent basally ; internal long, convergent, prominent at base, 

 lateral sulci narrow ; median area strongly depressed, sulci- 

 form. Scrobes open posteriorly. Eyes rounded. Antennse 

 rather short, club thick. Prothorax (3-5x4 mm.) subangu- 

 late on sides, apex rounded above, with a strongly marked 

 postocular sinuosity and prominent ocular lobes ; disc with 

 median line impressed, free from granules ; granules arranged 

 m a double line on each side of middle, tending to become con- 

 fluent longitudinally ; also a group of granules at sides, where 

 the granules are more separated ; sides not granulate below. 

 Elytra (9-5 x 6 mm. ; width at base, 3-5 mm.) strongly dilate 

 posteriorly to beyond middle, apex abruptly rounded, base 

 deeply emarginate, the humeral angles strongly advanced. 

 Disc shallowly foveo-striate ; fovese small, open, the interven- 

 ing ridges not raised, setigerous ; interstices hardly raised, the 

 third and fifth more prominent at base and subcostiform, not 

 granulate, but setigerous in single series, the fifth and lateral 

 interstices showing feeble evidence of granulation ; sides foveo- 

 striate, foveae more distinct and interstices definitely, though 

 feebly, granulate. Intermediate segments flat, short; fifth 

 excavate, with a tricarinate central depression, and a deeper, 

 narrow, semicircular fossa at apex, posterior edge strongly 

 bisinuate. Anterior femora with a feeble central ridge in 

 outer portion. Dimensions : ^^.14 x 6 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane (T. G. Sloane). 



Allied to T. humeralis, but without the shining elytral 

 granules of that species ; from T . scapularis, inter alia, it dif- 

 fers in the fewer and confluent granules on the prothorax. The 

 peculiar felted patches on the elytra give this species and T. 

 scapularis a very characteristic appearance. 



Talaurinus scalpularis, n.sp. 



cf ■ Small, elongate-ovate, elytra dilatate. Black, densely 

 clothed with brownish squames, each elytron with three, irre- 



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