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  Genera 
  and 
  Species 
  of 
  Curculionides. 
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  and 
  with 
  the 
  dorsal 
  surface 
  very 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   tibiae 
  rather 
  shorter, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  small 
  hairs 
  only, 
  like 
  the 
  

   other 
  legs. 
  The 
  specimens 
  agreed 
  so 
  perfectly 
  in 
  all 
  other 
  

   respects, 
  that 
  I 
  was 
  convinced 
  these 
  differences 
  were 
  sexual, 
  and 
  

   I 
  also 
  conclude 
  that 
  the 
  individuals 
  with 
  the 
  broader 
  elytra 
  are 
  

   the 
  females. 
  I 
  will 
  only 
  further 
  add 
  that 
  the 
  slightly 
  concave 
  

   back 
  to 
  the 
  elytra 
  gives 
  to 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  a 
  somewhat 
  humped 
  

   appearance 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  numerous 
  longish 
  stiff 
  

   erect 
  hairs 
  on 
  this 
  humped 
  part. 
  

  

  CuBicosoMus,* 
  nov. 
  gen. 
  Cleonid^. 
  

   Anlennce 
  mediocres 
  ; 
  scapo 
  oculos 
  vix 
  attingente 
  ; 
  articulis 
  duo- 
  

   bus 
  basalibus 
  funiculi 
  longiusculis, 
  obconicis, 
  reliquis 
  brevi- 
  

   bus, 
  sub-turbinatis 
  ; 
  clava 
  oblongo-ovata. 
  Rostrum 
  longitu- 
  

   dine 
  capitis 
  cum 
  thorace, 
  angulatum, 
  apice 
  crassiusculum; 
  

   scrobs 
  obliqua. 
  Caput 
  angustum 
  ; 
  fronte 
  impressa, 
  utrinque 
  

   sub-gibbosa. 
  Oculi 
  oblongi, 
  parum 
  convex!. 
  Thorax 
  parvus, 
  

   postice 
  truncatus, 
  antice 
  profunde 
  rotundato-emarginatus, 
  

   pone 
  oculis 
  lobatus 
  ; 
  lateribus 
  fere 
  rectis. 
  Scutellum 
  nullum. 
  

   Elytra 
  ampla, 
  thoracis 
  basi 
  duplo 
  latiora, 
  sub-quadrata 
  ; 
  hu- 
  

   meris 
  obliquis 
  angulatis 
  ; 
  apice 
  valde 
  declivi. 
  Pedes 
  me- 
  

   diocres; 
  angulis 
  parvulis. 
  

   Near 
  Leptops, 
  but 
  differs 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  form 
  ; 
  the 
  rostrum 
  

   being 
  rather 
  longer 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  that 
  genus 
  ; 
  the 
  head 
  

   narrow, 
  the 
  forehead 
  depressed, 
  but 
  with 
  an 
  oblong, 
  slightly 
  

   raised 
  gibbosity 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  over 
  the 
  eye, 
  which 
  latter 
  is 
  placed 
  

   in 
  a 
  depression 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  raised 
  orbit 
  ; 
  the 
  antennae 
  present 
  but 
  

   two 
  elongate 
  obconic 
  joints 
  to 
  the 
  funiculus, 
  the 
  remaining 
  joints 
  

   being 
  turbinate; 
  the 
  thorax 
  small; 
  the 
  elytra 
  ample 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   cuboid 
  in 
  form. 
  

  

  Cuhicosomus 
  fVhitei. 
  

   Ater, 
  sordide 
  fusco-squamosus 
  ; 
  rostro 
  longitudinaliter 
  im- 
  

   presso, 
  basi 
  obtuse 
  carinato 
  ; 
  fronte 
  utrinque 
  sub-gibbosa, 
  

   medio 
  depressa 
  ; 
  capite 
  postice 
  rugulis 
  minutissimis 
  crebre 
  

   obsito 
  ; 
  thorace 
  angusto, 
  lateribus 
  fere 
  rectis, 
  ante 
  medium 
  

   perpaulo 
  latiore, 
  supra 
  valde 
  insequali, 
  medio 
  longitudinaliter 
  

   impresso, 
  pone 
  medium 
  transversim 
  impresso 
  ; 
  elytris 
  in- 
  

   aequalibus, 
  sub-seriatim 
  profunde 
  punctatis, 
  interstitiis 
  trans- 
  

   versim 
  rugosis, 
  biseriatim 
  obtuse 
  tuberculatis. 
  

   Long. 
  Corp., 
  rostr. 
  excl., 
  lin. 
  5| 
  ; 
  lat. 
  lin. 
  3|. 
  

   Hab. 
  Nova 
  Hollandia, 
  apud 
  " 
  Richmond 
  River." 
  

   The 
  insect 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  above 
  description 
  is 
  taken 
  appears 
  to 
  

   * 
  From 
  Kv0iy.bg, 
  cubical, 
  and 
  aSifjia,, 
  body. 
  

  

  