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and thin, femora transversely scarred ventrally; tibiae long, thin, 

 the anterior and middle almost straight; posterior feebly curved, 

 the concavity posterior; tarsi lineariform. Dimensions : £. 20 x 

 8 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Coonabarabran (T. G. Sloane, and 

 Macleay Museum). 



Close to T. typicus, but with the scrobes not divided, different 

 elytral sculpture, especially of the third interstice, and longer and 

 thinner legs. 



Talaurinus miliaris, n.sp. 



These Proceedings, 1912, Pl.iii., figs.1-2. 



( J. Size moderately large, elongate, convex. Black, opaque; 

 clothed with a few muddy scales in depressions; setse minute, light 

 coloured. 



Head continued on to rostrum without interruption, forehead 

 feebly convex between the ends of the rostral ridges. Rostrum 

 moderate, thick, strongly excavate in front; external ridges con- 

 vergent basally, continued up on to forehead; internal long, con- 

 vergent; lateral basal sulci long and deep, median area depressed, 

 a deep pit between the ends of the internal ridges. Scrobes sub- 

 divided, posterior portion open, extending almost to eye. Eyes 

 rather large, subovate. Prothorax (4-5 x 5-5 mm.) rounded on 

 sides, apex truncate above, ocular lobes moderately well denned; 

 disc without impressions, moderately finely granulate, granules 

 somewhat irregular in size and distribution, finer in centre, and not 

 contiguous; sides practically without granules. Elytra (13x7 

 mm.) gently rounded at sides, apex obtuse, feebly mucronate; base 

 truncate, humeral angles not marked." Disc granulate in six series, 

 sutural row finely, almost obsoletely, at base more coarsely granu- 

 late, the granules at base flattened and in double series; second 

 interstice with a single row of seven to nine larger, but still small, 

 granules distantly placed and absent on declivity; third with a 

 row of about 50 finer granules in double series on disc, but in 

 single on declivity ; fourth with about five granules equal in size to 

 those of second row, and situated far apart; fifth with a double 



