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pore infra nitide nigro, setulis minutis adsperso ; tarsis sat angustis, 

 posticis hand elongatis. Long. 1 1 lin. 

 Hab. South Australia. 



This description is made from a female ; the male lias the apex 

 of the elytra mucronate, and longer posterior tarsi. This fine spe- 

 cies has the outline of T. ruffifer, Bois., but is very differently 

 sculptured. 



Talaurinus funereus. T. oblongus, niger, vix nitidus, squamulis 

 silaceis in cavitatibus tnunitus ; capite parce setuloso, occipite solo 

 silaceo-squamoso ; rostro brevi, punctato, capite angustiore, in medio 

 profunde sulcato, basi bifoveato ; scapo modice elongato ; clava basi 

 elongato-obconica ; prothorace transverse, utrinque rotundato, gra- 

 nulis minusculis sat confertira munito ; elytris pone medium latio- 

 ribus, humeris tuberculatis, apice rotundatis, seriatim subfoveatis et 

 granulatis, interstitiis parce tuberculatis, tuberculis posticis solis 

 modice conicis, alteris gvanuliforraibus ; corpore infra subnitido ; seg- 

 mentis tribus ultirais abdominis in medio macula squamosa notatis. 

 Long. 8| lin. 

 Hab. West Australia. 



The rostral fovea is formed by the approximation of the 

 intermediate carina to the outer, which is a step towards its 

 obliteration. On the elytra it is hard to say where the gra- 

 nules end and the tubercles begin ; but one or two may be 

 counted in the first row (second interstice), four or five in the 

 second, one in the third ; the fourth or humeral row has also four 

 or five, without counting four or five tolerably stout granules near 

 the shoulder ; and the outer row has some five or six : the inter- 

 mediate granules accompanying the fovese are very small. 



Talaurinus pustulatus. T. oblongo-ovatus, niger, obscurus, in 

 cavitatibus asperse silaceo-squamulosus ; capite parce setuloso ; rostro 

 brevi, crasso, basi bifoveato ; scapo modice elongato ; clava basi 

 elongato-obconica; prothorace subtransverso, utrinque rotundato, 

 granulis depressis majusculis munito ; elytris irregulariter foveatis, et 

 granulatis, tuberculis minusculis, breviter conicis, sat remote obsitis, 

 humeris tuberculatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam paulo productis ; 

 corpore infra subnitido ; segmentis intermediis in medio maculatim 

 squamosis. Long. 71 lin- 

 Hab. West Australia. 



In this dull black species the granules and tubercles are much 

 flatter than usual. On the elytra it is difficult to trace any linear 

 arrangement of the foveae, but the tubercles are dispersed in the 

 following manner : — four or five in the first row, eight or nine in 



