BY E. W. FERGUSON. 767 



rather indefinite. Eyes rotiindate. Prothorax (6x7 mm.) sub- 

 rotundate, disc rather strongly convex; disc closely and evenly 

 covered with hemispherical granules; sides granulate. Elytra 

 (13*5 X 9 mm.) ovate; apex rather strongly rounded; base emar- 

 ginate, humeral angles produced, tuberculif orm ; suture with fine 

 granules, thickened at base; second interstice with seven tubercles; 

 third with fourteen; fourth with five; fifth with twelve; sixth with 

 nine; tubercles flattened basally, becoming conical posteriorly. 

 Sides rugosely granulate. Ventral segments feebly maculate with 

 brownish; fifth segment with a feeble, apical impression. Dimen- 

 sions: 9) 20x9 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia. 



The above description was drawn up, some time ago, from a 

 specimen compared with the type, which was kindly sent for 

 examination by the British Museum authorities. I now regret not 

 having noted several features which might have proved useful in 

 differentiating this species from its allies. The black colour of the 

 tubercles would associate S. molossus with S. laticollis Macl., but 

 my recollection is that it was more closely allied to S. Elderi. I 

 have a specimen, which, at the time, I identified as a variety of 

 8. molossus y and which has the tubercles distinctly reddish. This 

 specimen is readily separated from S. Elderi by the sides of the 

 prothorax, which are granulate down to the coxae. Compared with 

 S. laticollis, this specimen has a more convex prothorax, and a 

 broader rostrum ; as, however, my specimens are of different sexes, 

 they are hardly comparable. 



S. molossus, though described as a Talaurinus, is certainly a 

 Sclerorinus. 



SCLERORINUS ANaUSTIOR, n.Sp. 



(J, Closely allied to S. Elderi SI., but narrower. Black, the 

 elytral tubercles diluted with red ; moderately densely clothed with 

 minute, obscure, brownish squames; median vitta a rich dark 

 brown. 



Head convex, feebly bi-impressed in front, hardly carinate. 

 Rostrum about as wide as head, little excavate above; external 



