BY E. W. FERGUSON. 393 



Talaurinus tumulosus, n.sp. 



These Proceedings, 1912, PI. iii., fig.5. 



9. Size moderate, ovate. Black; with muddy-grey scales on 

 elytral and prothoracic depressions, and along head and rostrum, 

 forming two longitudinal stripes. 



Head, as viewed from side, flat above, sloping on to rostrum 

 without interruption; when viewed from in front, the external 

 rostral ridges are seen to extend back to vertex, slightly con- 

 verging ; forehead concave between ridges, mesial line bare. 

 Rostrum rather feebly excavate, external ridges prominent, 

 median area triangular, elongate, the sides feebly raised to form 

 the internal ridges, a small feeble fovea present at base, sub- 

 lateral sulci long, shallow, continued on to forehead. Scrobes 

 deep, rather short, with a shallow prolongation upwards and 

 backwards in front of eye. Eyes small, round. Prothorax 

 (3*5x5 mm.) transverse, apex feebly sinuate, no definite lobes 

 present; disc irregularly rugose, a transverse impression in front 

 of middle, in front of which are two small plicated elevations, 

 and two larger ones behind, one on each side of middle line, a 

 similar elevation at each side in the middle, posteriorly to these 

 elevations a number of smaller granules are present; sides with- 

 out granules. Elytra (11x7 mm.) evenly rounded, apex with a 

 fine, rather long, mucro; base widely arcuate, humeri marked by 

 a prominent granule. Disc with five rows of punctures, shallow, 

 almost obsolete; interstices for the most part not prominent, but 

 with large elongate nodules or tubercles, first with a single 

 nodule at base, second with two larger ones in middle and two 

 or three smaller conical ones 011 declivity, third with four large 

 ones extending to base but not on declivity, the last one conical, 

 fourth without tubercles, fifth with one or two near middle and 

 two near humeral angle, the basal one large and prominent, sixth 

 with five conical tubercles. Sides obsoletely granulate. Beneath, 

 convex, intermediate segments long, fifth without impressions. 

 Dimensions: 2,17 x 7 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Inverell (J. Stephen, per H. J. 

 Carter). 



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