292 THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF AMYCTERID^, 



SchonheiT seems only to have known two species of this 

 genus, the present one and A. monmis of Germar. His descrip- 

 tion consequently of this insect scarcely does more than define 

 characters common to the whole ge."us, and which have been 

 given as generic characters by Lacordaire. The species is closely 

 covered with cinereous scales, has the thorax almost orbicular 

 and much narrower in proportion to the elytra than is usual in 

 the genus, and is altogether much lai\ger than the species found 

 in the Eastern and Sduil'.ern parts of Australia. 



The oidy specime)^ I liave seen of tJiis insect is in the collec- 

 tion of the late Mr. MacLeay. 



2. — CUBICORHTNCHUS MOROSUS, D'Urville. 



Amycterus morosus, T'oisd., Voy. de TAustral. IT., p. 386. Schijnh., Gen. et 

 spec. Cui'cul., vol. VII., p. 67. Germ. Linn. Ent., vol. III., p. 217. 



" Oblongo-ellipiicus niij-er griseo-squamulosus, capite remote 

 rugoso rostro quadrangulariter impresso basi transversim 

 canaliculato utrinqne tuberculo brevi acuto instructo, thorace 

 sat crebre granulafco granulis pallido-setiferis tenuissime 

 canaliculato, elytris obsolete striato-punctatis inters titiis 

 convexis seriatim granulatis c-ranulis setiferis in interstitio 

 quarto posterius magis elevatis apice subacuminatis." 

 Schonherr. 



Long. 6^ lin., lat. 2j lin. 



Hab. New South Wales and South Australia. 



This species seems to have a wide range, and to be subject 

 to considerable variety. Curiously enough, M. Lacordaire, the 

 founder of this cenuo seems not to have had any idea that this 

 insect belonged to it. Indeed, it is evident that M. Lacordaire 

 had himself seen but few of the Amycteridce which had been 

 described by Schonherr, Boisduval, and others, when we find him 

 referring as examples of his genus to undescribed insects, such as 

 Acantholophus sepidioides, MacL., and Acantlwloplms scotobioides, 

 Hope, when A. morosus, Sch., A. Bohemani, Sch., and A. cre- 

 nicolUs and Dohrnii, Waterhoase, all excellent examples of his 

 genus, are referred by him to other genera. 



