Notes on Aniycf^ruhs. 2 1<7 



intrastrial granules, will not permit nie regardiiifx tlieni as eon- 

 specific. I have described the clothing from a spL-cimen in good 

 preservation, most of the series before me, howevei, liave a more or 

 less unifo]-m, dingy clothing. The elytral sculpture varies con- 

 siderably, particularly in regaid to the degree of duplication of 

 the tubercles on the third and fifth interstices. On the fifth the 

 basal tubercles, for perhaps a quarter of the length of the interstice, 

 are generally arranged, sometimes in single, sometimes in double 

 series, in a slight arc, with convexity outwards; the succeeding 

 tubercles are in a more or less straight line, sometimes in single 

 series throughout, sometimes in irregular double series, for another 

 quarter of the length of the interstice ; the remaining portion is 

 always tuberculate in single series. 

 Type in author's collection. 



Talaurinus hystrix, n. sp. 



^ Size moderately lai'ge, elongate, suboblongate. Black, without 

 clothing; setae black. 



Head convex; forehead slightly depressed in front, the depression 

 bounded on either side by a short ridge, the continuation backAvards 

 of the external rostral ridges. Rostrum short, deeply excavate; 

 external ridges prominent; moderately closely setigero-punctate ; 

 internal ridges obsolete; median area not raised; sublateral sulci, 

 short, subtriangular, foveiforni, situated at extreme base of rostrum 

 and connected across base. Scrobes open belli nd, reaching almost 

 to eyes. Eyes subovate, almost rotundate. Prothorax (5x6 mm.) 

 rather strongly dilate; apical border with moderately prominent 

 ocular lobes. Disc strongly convex transversely; subapical con- 

 struction barely traceable; without median impression, but with 

 indefinite sublateral impressions ; moderately closely set with rather 

 strong, rounded tubercles, smaller in immediate centre, and also 

 along sublateral impressions. Sides with granules obsolete. Elytra 

 (11 X 7 mm.) not greatly widened on sides; base arcuate, humeri 

 marked by outwardly projecting tubercles. Disc without evident 

 punctures, but with numerous conspicuous granules, not definitely 

 traceable into series; interstices strongly tuberculate, tubercles sub- 

 conical basally, large and acutely conical, almost spinose, pos- 

 teriorly and laterally; sutural interstices wdth a row of fine 

 granules, and a few larger confluent ones at base; second with, as 

 a rule, from two to four (in type-form), about middle; third with 

 a row from base to halfway down declivity, varying from six to 



