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without impression. Anterior femora strongly ridged below 

 in outer half ; intermediate tibiae with a deep, subapicai notcli. 



9 . The type (9 •) differs from the male described above in 

 being uniformly clothed with dirty grey scales ; on the elytra, 

 the third interstice has seven granules, small, round, unevenly 

 and distantly spaced ; and one on declivity on one side ; the 

 sixth is regularly and closely granulate ; beneath, the fifth 

 ventral segment has a jjunctiform depression. Diviensions : 

 cf, 16x6; 9, 17 X 7; P., 5x6; E., 11 X 7 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland (Type in the Australian Museum), Dua- 

 ringa. 



The elytral sculpture in this species may be taken, with 

 modifications, as characteristic of a group of closely allied 

 forms ; the punctures are in rows, but hardly striate ; each 

 puncture is subtended by a small setigerous granule ; the inter- 

 stices are not raised, but, on the second, third, and fourth are 

 set small, elongate, distant tubercles; the fifth is evident at 

 the shoulder, but becomes much less definite posteriorly ; the 

 sixth is composed of closely set tubercles. Some of the species 

 are extremely close, but differ in the rostrum, and in the pre- 

 sence or absence of the anterior femoral ridge, or of the sub- 

 apical tibial notch. 



Talaurinus Gayndahensis, n.sp. 

 (Plate ii., fig. 8.) 



cf. Facies that of T. pallidas Macl. Black densely clothed 

 with brownish scales interspersed with grey, prothorax feebly 

 trivittate, elytra vittate near sides ; setae dark brown. 



Head convex, densely clothed, setigero-punctate. Rostrum 

 separated from head, shallowly excavate, external ridges con- 

 vex in profile, slightly divergent basally ; internal low, practi- 

 cally obsolete ; median area sublsevigate, broad, not raised ; 

 lateral sulci shallow. Scrobes curved, open posteriorly. Scape 

 rather more slender than in T. pallulus. Prothorax (4-5 x 5 

 mm.) rounded on sides, apex rounded above with definite 

 ocular lobes ; disc convex without an apical impression, set 



