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before me without other scales, excepting a \'eiitral }n(>(liaii vitta 

 of short yellowish-brown scales reaching from middle of first 

 segment to apex ; tliis vitta narrow and very weak on first two 

 segments, wider and coitinuous on last three. 



Rostrum broad, thick, as wide across apex as head, lightly 

 excavate ; middle part broad, not raised into a ridge ; a broad 

 horseshoe-like impression at base, subfoveate and extending 

 obli(fuely forward on each side ; external ridges convex, con- 

 tinuous with forehead. Head broad ; front depressed and 

 lightly concave in itiiddle behind rostrum. Prothorax a little 

 broader than long (51 x 6| nnn.), subcylindrical, dilatate on 

 sides, broadest before the middle, as broad across apex as across 

 base, not convex longitudinally ; disc depressed ; anterior margin 

 sinuate, truncate above head ; base truncate ; granules large, 

 unequal, flattened, unisetigerous ; sides lightly rugulose near 

 coxiB ; a narrow space along anterior margin rather roughly 

 setigero-punctate. Elytra heavy, suboval (15 x 8^ mm.), widest 

 about middle, strongly rounded on sides, decidedly narrowed 

 to base and apex, transversely and longitudinally convex ; 

 middle of disc depressed ; base lightly emarginate ; shoulders a 

 little advanced in a strong obtuse prominence ; apex with a strong 

 triangular projection at end of second interstice of each elytron, 

 the emarginations between these projections broad, shallow, not 

 triangular ; sculpture formed of elevations and depressions : the 

 elevations rather regular, forming subgranulate interstices, not 

 prominent on anterior two-thirds of elytra : the depressions 

 irregular ; posterior declivity with more regular sculpture than 

 disc, the interstice having regular tuberculiform granules ; 

 sculpture of sides irregular, with deep transverse rugae. Ventral 

 segments, excepting first, impi'essed on sides : the impressions of 

 third and fourth confluent, and together forming a deep fovea 

 not extending to posterior margin of fourth ; apical segment as 

 long as two preceding ones together, not excavate towards apex. 



Length, 23^ ; breadth, &^ mm. 



Habitat. — Westward to Everard Range. May-June. 



This species seems more allied to T. convexus, SI., than to 

 T. msignis, SL, or T. noctis, SI. The differences in the rostrum, 

 forehead, sculpture of the elytra, and the )nuch weaker ocular 

 lobes, ifec, preclude me from thinking there can be any possibility 

 of its being the female of T. concexus. 



Talaurinus noetis, /(. yj. 

 robust ; liead broad, smooth 



Female. — Oblong, robust ; liead broad, smooth ; prothorax 

 granulate ; elytra longitudinally very convex, subfoveo-striate 

 (the sculpture intricate), legs light. Black, shining; prothorax 

 and elytra without scales, except some whitish ones near margin 



