128 REVISION* OF THE AMYCTehIDES, 11., 



TaLAURINUS VERMICOLLIS, 11. sp. 



cf. Small, elongate-ovate. Black, opaque: clothed in de- 

 pressions with yellowish scales; beneath, with longer yellow 

 pubescence on each segment, condensed in middle to form a 

 vitta, and at sides ; setae dark brown. 



Head convex, flattened in front, sparingly setigero-punctatc. 

 Rostrum excavate, external ridges prominent, convergent 

 basally : internal ridges long, convergent : lateral sulci long, 

 deep: median aiea sulcifoi'm, depressed throughout. Scrobes 

 open posteriorly. Eyes small, subrotundate. Prothorax (3-5 

 X 4 mm.) subcylindrical, very little widened at the sides, apex 

 with a feeble postocular sinuosity, disc with a deep median 

 channel : granules small, irregular, longitudinally confluent, 

 leaving spaces free from granules, towards and on sides more 

 regularly granulate. ElyLra (9 x 5-5 mm.) widest behind 

 middle, apex moderately produced, rounded, base feebly arcu- 

 ate, humeral angles with a small granulate nodule : disc and 

 sides with rows of irregular foveas or large punctures, inter- 

 vening ridges prominent and granulate ; interstices irregular, 

 granulate, the whole sculpture more or less confused, granules 

 depressed not shining, more thickly set along third interstice. 

 Beneath, intermediates long : fifth segment with a feeble shal- 

 low impression at apex. Tibiae simple, femora without ridges, 

 /Jl)/i('iisi()ns : cT, 14x5-5 mm. 



/lab. — N.S.Wales: Mudgee ( — Stephen, per II. J. Carter). 



Close to T. pa])i/Iosi/s, of which, perhaps, it is only a well- 

 marked variety. Apart from the difference in size, T. rrr- 

 mico/Iis appears to differ in the colour of its clothing, in the 

 prothoracic granules more confluent along the median line, in 

 the rather more deeply foveate elytral sculpture, with less 

 obvious granules, in lacking the excavation of the apical ven- 

 tral segment, and in the colour of the median vitta. 



Talaurinus Illidgei, n.sp. 

 (Plate iii., fig. 10.) 

 cf. Elongate-ovate. Black: densely clothed, head with 

 grey, a dark brown patch on either side of middle line, pro- 



