BY EUSTACE W . FERGUSON. 147 



second row ; seventh obsolete. Sides seriate-punctate, inter- 

 stices obsoletely granulate. Intermediate ventral segments 

 together longer than apical ; fifth segment with a transverse 

 impression at apex. Legs moderately long, tibiae setigerous 

 and spinose ; tarsi linear. Dimensions : J" 13 x 5 mm. 



Hah. — New Holland (Boisduval) — Victoria (Macleay Mu- 

 seum — New South Wales: Grenfell (E. W. Ferguson). 



Labels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Phalidura [struck out] scabra 

 d'Urville, h. in Nova Hollandia, D. Lesson; 6, Type /'. 

 scabra. 



Talaurinus Kirbyi W. S. Macleay. 



W. S. Macleay, King's Survey ii., 1827, p.444 ; W. Macl., 

 I.e., p. 238; T. costatus Boisd., I.e. p.384 ; T. Mastersi Macl., 

 I.e. p. 239. 



Type, T. i-osfat us Boisd, ^ — Elongate-elliptical, convex. 

 Black, clothing confined to a few muddy scales in the de- 

 pressions ; setae minute. 



Head not sharply marked off from rostrum, forehead con- 

 cave between rostral ridges. Rostrum narrower than head, 

 external ridges prominent, slightly convergent posteriorly, 

 straight in profile, continued on to head above eyes ; internal 

 ridges long, oblique ; basal sulci long, deep, running into 

 excavation of forehead ; median area strongly depressed. 

 Scrobes open behind, secondary fossa present posteriorly. 

 Eyes small, subrotundate. Prothorax (4-5 x 5-5 mm.) evenly 

 rounded on sides, postocular sinuosity slight ; granules small, 

 closely set, somewhat flattened ; granules obsolete on sides 

 near coxae. Elytra (13 x 8 mm.) ovate, apex feebly mucro- 

 nate; base slightly emarginate, shoulders obtusely prominent. 

 Each elytron with two broad double striae and two single 

 lateral ones on disc : the double striae feebly transversely 

 rugate, each with two rows of fine punctures between the 

 rugae, each puncture with a seta on the ridge above it ; lateral 

 striae each with a single row of punctures : sutural interstice 

 costate, well defined ; second very prominent, costate ; third 



