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distinguished from the other groups with short forceps, by the 

 well-developed fascicles and the form of the metasternum. 



PSALIDURA FLAVESCENS, n. Sp. 



<$ . Moderately stout, robust, in appearance close to 

 perlata. Black; densely clothed with bright-yellow sub- 

 pubescence or scales, covering all upper parts except rostral 

 ridges, portion of head, and granules below, present on meta- 

 sternum, and feebly on segments where scales are more setose ; 

 granules with long bright-yellow setae, legs with stout setae. 



Head and rostrum as in perlata, frontal impression 

 shallow, clothing forming a median and supraorbital vittae. 

 Prothorax (5x6 mm.) with smaller and more separate granules 

 than in perlata, each with a long seta. Elytra (115 x 8 mm.) 

 much as in perlata, densely clothed, intrastrial ridges trace- 

 able, setigerous; interstices with distinctly smaller granules, 

 for the most part in double series, setae long. Metasternum 

 and anal segment as in perlata, except that excavation is less 

 nitid. 



Dim. — d 1 , 19 x 8 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia : Eucla (C. French), Port Lincoln 

 (South Australian Museum). Close to perlata, but with very 

 different clothing and noticeably smaller granules. 



Type in author's collection. 



Talaurinus maculipennis, Lea. 



Var. brevior, n. var. 



S ■ Differs from typical specimens in being shorter and 

 comparatively stouter; clothing with lighter portions predom- 

 inating, setae rather stouter, of a brighter yellow colour; pro- 

 thoracic granules more distinct, not obscured by clothing; 

 elytra with the intrastrial granules rather more prominent, 

 the setae distinctly more evident; otherwise as in type. 



Dim. — S , 12 x 5 mm. ; Q , 12 x 5'5 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Eucla (C. French); South 

 Australia (South Australian Museum, without exact locality). 



Type in author's collection. 



I have had specimens of this form under observation for 

 some time, and while I do not regard them as specifically 

 distinct, I think that the differences noted above are sufficient 

 to entitle the form to subspecific rank. 



Talaurinus flaveolus, n. sp. 

 d . Small, elongate-ovate, of type of T. simplicipes. 

 Black, densely clothed with greyish or yellow subpubescence ; 

 setae light-yellow. 



