BY E. W. FERGUSON. 371 



Head large, convex, densely clothed. Rostrum moderately long, 

 excavate, especially deep at apex; external ridges slightly sinuate, 

 and out-turned at base; internal moderately prominent, convergent, 

 sulci rather deep, confluent across base. Scrobes open behind. 

 Prothorax (6 x 7 mm.) widest in front of middle, postocular 

 sinuosity feeble ; with three longitudinal impressions or spaces free 

 from granules ; the latter arranged in four groups on disc, irregu- 

 lar in size, and often confluent, but less so than in T. niveo-vittatus, 

 a large confluent mass situated across apex of median line; sides 

 granulate but not to coxae. Elytra (15 x 9 mm.) little widened, 

 apex strongly rounded, humeral angles thickened; each elytron with 

 three longitudinal striae, densely clothed and constituted of conflu- 

 ent foveae in double series; interstices strongly raised, costiform, 

 strongly undulate in outline, with lateral spurs running into striae, 

 often continuous across in the more lateral striae; interstices show- 

 ing a tendency to become split into nodules laterally and on 

 declivity. Sides rugosely and irregularly nodulose. Fifth ventral 

 segment rather deeply impressed at apex, the impression clothed 

 with black hair. Lgs simple, anterior femora without tooth be- 

 neath. Dimensions: (J. 23 x 9 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales; Inverell. 



I am indebted to Mr. H.J.Carter for the opportunity of describ- 

 ing this species. It is closely allied to T. niveo-vittatus, but differs 

 in both its prothoracic and elytral sculpture, besides being a 

 broader, more robust species. The foveae on the elytra are rather 

 larger than in T. niveo-vittatus, and more definitely foveae, not 

 merely punctiform depressions along the sides of the striae. 



Talaurinus impressicollis Macl., Ice. cit., p. 239. 

 T. hiscipennis Macl., ibid,, ^1866, p. 321. 

 <£. Elongate, subparallel. Block, opaque; in depressions with 

 muddy-grey clothing. 



Head convex, forehead feebly concave, not sharply marked off 

 from rostrum, densely clothed. Rostrum deeply excavate through- 

 out, external ridges parallel; internal short, strongly convergent, 

 subdepressed. Scrobes open posteriorly, not subdivided. Eyes 



