354 REVISION OF THE AMYCTBRIDES, h., 



Head convex, forehead concave, rather densely clothed with 

 blackish scales intermingled with black decumbent setae. Rostrum 

 excavate, external ridges feebly convergent, rugosely punctured, 

 internal obsolete; median area triangular, impunctate; lateral 

 sulci deep, running into frontal concavity. Scrobes open pos- 

 teriorly. Eyes subrotundate. Prothorax(4'5 x 6 mm.) rotundate, 

 postorbital sinuosity rather deep, disc closely covered with small 

 rounded granules. Elytra(12 x 7 mm.) elongate, subparallel, base 

 gently arcuate, humeral angles, moderately produced and marked 

 by a small granule; disc striate-punctate; interstices granulate, 

 sutural with a few at base, second with five or six, third with 

 ten to twelve, the last five conical, fourth with four small ones in 

 basal half, fifth with eight small ones not extending beyond 

 middle, sixth with about ten more conical ones. Beneath, rather 

 densely setigero-punctate; fifth ventral segment with a feeble 

 transverse impression at apex. Legs setigerous, anterior femora 

 with a ridge below in outer half. Dimensions : JM7 x 7 mm. 



Hab. — West Australia : Swan River. 



Belongs to the same group as T. simulator and T. pustulatus, 

 but with the prothoracic granulation closer and finer, and the 

 elytral tubercles more acute than in any other species. 



Talaurinus Bucephalus Olivier. 



Olivier, Ent., v., 83, p. 399, t. 25, f. 355; Masters' Catalogue, 

 No.4687; T. C amdenensis Macl., loc. cit., p. 226; T. murrumbid- 

 gensis Macl., I.e., p. 227; T. rudis Macl., I.e., p. 227; T. rugosus 

 Mac!., I.e., p. 229; T. salebrosus Mac!., I.e., p. 229; 0)A. granosus 

 Guer., Voy. Coquille, ii.(2), 1830, p.120; (V.)A. Westwoodi Bohem., 

 Schonh., Gen. Cure. vii.,(l), 1843, p. 63. 



£. Small, elongate-ovate, convex, Black, granules subnitid, 

 sparsely clothed in cavities. 



Head convex, separated from rostrum by a constriction. 

 Rostrum short, thick, excavate, external ridges subparallel, 

 internal little prominent, moderately long, convergent, lateral 

 basal sulci deep, median area deeply sunken anteriorly. Scrobes 

 simple, open posteriorly. Prothorax(4 x 4*5 mm.) evenly rounded 



