438 EEVISIOX OF THE AMYCTEEIDES, V., 



CUBICORRHYNCHUS TAURUS Blackb. 



Blackburn, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., ]89o, p. 220. 



The type of this species was from Lake Callabonna, in the 

 north-east of South Australia, but the species has a wide dis- 

 tribution. I have seen specimens from Victoria, New South 

 Wales, and Queensland, as well as from South Australia. The 

 species, however, is essentially an inland one, not having been 

 recorded as far east as the inland slopes of the eastern table- 

 lands. 



There exists a good deal of difference between the specimens 

 from the limits of this wide range, and, quite possibly, more 

 than one species has been included by me under this name. All 

 the forms, however, possess the curious hump-like thickening on 

 the undersurface of the posterior tibise, which I regard as the 

 essential feature of the species. 



The Victorian and southern South Australian specimens have 

 a more rounded prothorax than the northern forms, the granules 

 being also less conspicuous : the elytral granules are almost 

 absent on the inner and anterior portion of the elytra. In the 

 specimens from Longreach, Queensland, the elytral granules are 

 quite distinct, and the whole insect is smaller. The New South 

 Wales specimens before me are small, and agree with Queens- 

 land examples. 



Hah. — S.A. : Lake Callabonna, Oodnadatta, Blanchetown, 

 Adelaide, Lucindale. — Vic: Lillium, Dimboola.— N.S.W.: Nar- 

 romine, Coolebah, Moree. — Q.: Longreach, CunnamuUa. 



CUBICORRHYNCHUS MACULATUS Macl. 



Macleay, Inc. cit., p. 295; Lea, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1910, 

 p. 164; var. brevipes Lea, I.e., p. 165. 



^ Size moderately large. Clothing dense ; on prothorax 

 brownish, with a few small whitish spots; elytra mainly clothed 

 with greyish squames, with interrupted darker marks along the 

 alternate interstices; sides and legs thickly clothed with white; 

 setae yellowish-brown. 



