366 REVISION" OF THE AMYCTERIDES, H., 



Talaurinus foveatus Macl., loc. cit., p. 237. 



9. Elongate-ovate, large. Black, sparingly cinereo-squamose 

 in cavities, setae black. 



Head convex, forehead feebly concave at base of rostrum. 

 Rostrum short, thick, deeply excavate; external ridges prominent, 

 parallel, not continued along forehead; internal ridges low, well 

 defined, convergent and contiguous basally. Scrobes open pos- 

 teriorly, almost reaching eye. Eye large, ovate. Prothorax 

 (5-5x6-5 mm.) rounded but not dilate on sides, with a feeble, 

 apical, postocular sinuosity; disc convex, without impressions, 

 granules small, rounded (not minute as in T. rugifer); sides 

 granulate. Elytra (15x9 mm.) elongate-ovate, base subtruncate, 

 humeral angle with a small nodule; disc with three double rows 

 of fovese, fovese deep, irregular in shape, often confluent in the 

 lateral row, never in the median, separated by irregular but well 

 defined partitions; interstices prominent, costiform, somewhat 

 wavy in outline; sutural slightly raised posteriorly and thickened 

 at base; second and third (humeral) most prominent; fourth pro- 

 minent, subgranulate; sides rugose, irregularly foveo-striate, in- 

 terstices obsoletely granulate. Beneath, with a feeble yellow 

 vitta; intermediate segments long, fifth not excavate. Dimen- 

 sions : 9.23 x 9 mm. 



Hob. — "N.E. Coast." Type in Macleay Museum; Sydney. 



A male, which appears to belong to the above species, from 

 Sydney, is in my collection; it differs in the usual way in the 

 genus, and also it lacks the median tooth on the anterior femora. 



T. foveatus, var. montanus, n.var. 

 These Proceedings, 1912, Pl.iii., fig. 17. 



(J. Larger, relatively more elongate. Head and rostrum as in 

 type; prothorax (6-5 x 7 mm.) more elongate; elytra (16x9 mm.) 

 with somewhat different foveae, having more tendency to become 

 confluent laterally, the sides definitely and regularly foveate; 

 beneath, with a median vitta of black hair. Dimensions : 

 £.25x9; 9-26 x 10 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales : Blue Mountains, Mt. Irvine. 



In some respects, this variety approaches T. lacmwsus, par- 

 ticularly in the regular foveation of the sides. 



