360 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDES, 11., 



Talaurinus tuberculatus Macl., loc. cit. y p. 233. 



Elongate-ovate, strongly tuberculate. Black, with white and 

 ochraceous scales; head with a white line bifurcate on rostrum; 

 prothorax trivittate; elytra with white along suture, maculate 

 near sides, and a white band along margin of sides. 



Head convex, forehead concave between rostral ridges. Ros- 

 trum rather longer and narrower than head, deeply excavate, 

 external ridges subparallel, continued on to forehead; internal 

 ridges obsolete, median area depressed, lateral basal sulci repre- 

 sented by small foveiform depressions at base. Scrobes open 

 posteriorly. Prothorax (5x6 mm.) rounded on sides, almost sub- 

 angulate, ocular lobes rather prominent, a transverse collar- 

 impression present behind apex; granules rounded, somewhat 

 irregular in size, but rather large, and not contiguous Elytra 

 (12 X 7 mm.) with apex strongly rounded, not mucronate, base 

 lightly arcuate; humeral angles strongly tuberculate; disc not de- 

 finitely striate, but with the interstices strongly tuberculate, and 

 smaller granules interspersed; sutural with a row of small gran- 

 ules, larger at base; second with two to four tubercles in middle; 

 third * ith seven to eight tubercles, larger and more acute pos- 

 teriorly; fourth with two near middle; fifth with a humeral 

 tubercle, and five more separate ones; sixth with six conical 

 tubercles; sides granulate. Intermediate ventral segments long; 

 fifth with a broad, shallow excavation, deeper laterally, and 

 bordered by a ridge, becoming more prominent and ending pos- 

 teriorly in a raised point, a transverse narrow sulcus present 

 along apical margin. Apical tergite also shallowly excavate. 

 Anterior femora with a median ridge on undersurface. 



£. Similar to the male, but the apex of elytra with two sub- 

 parallel mucrones near suture. Dimensions : £. 18 x 7; £.18 X 7 

 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria. Type in Macleay Museum. 



The type appears to be abraded or discoloured, and the de. 

 scription of the clothing given above is from a specimen in my 

 own collection. The species appears to be common in Victoria, 

 and I have had specimens referred to me as from the south of 



