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Black, sliining ; a few greyisli scales in some of the foveie of the 

 elytra, and a discontinuous stripe of grey scales along their 

 lateral margins. Ventral segments longitudinally impressed on 

 each side, and having a median vitta of thick, bristly, black hair. 



Rostrum short, broad, lightly excavate, without internal 

 ridges ; the middle a little raised, smooth, and longitudinally 

 convex; a short deep fovea extending obliquely forward on each 

 side of base, these fovese connected behincl by a transverse im- 

 pression ; external ridges setigero-punctate, not divided from 

 forehead, prominent, diverging a little in front of antennas. Head 

 convex, setigero-punctate between tlie eyes ; front lightly excav- 

 ate, and sti'ongly declivous to middle of rostrum. 



Prothorax a little broader than long (6 x 6J mm.), strongly 

 dilatate on sides, widest before the middle, about as wide across 

 apex as across base, lightly convex transversely, a little so 

 longitudinally ; disc flattened ; anterior margin strongly sinuate, 

 nnddle lightly advanced, but not produced over head ; ocular 

 lobes pi'ominent : base truncate ; granules large, unequal, 

 flattened, more prominent near sides, not extending to near 

 coxie ; the sides rugulose and setigerous near cox* ; a narrow 

 declivous space along anterior margin free from granules and 

 setigerous. Elytra long, narrow (14 x 7 mm.), depressed on 

 disc, lightly declivous behind ; base broadly and lightly emargin- 

 ate; the shoulders projecting forward in a thick rounded tubercle; 

 apex rounded, the edges of suture becoming very lightly dehiscent 

 at apex, and ending in small blunt prominences; dorsal interstices 

 subcostate, very slightly raised, forming broken discontinuous 

 ridges, becoming rather tuberculate on posterior declivity, third 

 most prominent and reaching almost to apex ; the spaces between 

 the interstices of dorsal surface foveate ; the fovea irregular, 

 often confluent, and crossing the interstices ; the sculpture of the 

 sides more regular, formed of alternate transverse undulate ridges 

 and depressions so disposed as to make regular longitudinal striw 

 with subgranulate interstices ; the suture in a shallow longi- 

 tudinal channel. Ventral segments longitudinally impressed on 

 each side of median vitta, the impressions continuous on first and 

 second segments, interrupted on third, extending across last two, 

 and forming a deep oblique fovea on last ; apical segment not as 

 long as two preceding ones together. Legs long; anterior femora 

 dilatate in middle, a longitudinal linear cicatrix on lower side of 

 apical half ;* posterior tarsi long, narrow ; ungues long. 



* A more or less proniiiieiit longitudinal ridge is found in the middle of 

 the apical part of tlie femora in nuir.y species of Talanrinus and 

 Sderorhinus. Though apparently overlooked by former writers, it will 

 probably be found of great use in grouping the species of these genera. It 

 is essentially a characteristic of the male. 



