18 MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CTJBCULIONIDiE. 



MOLOCHTUS. 



jRostrum crassum, antice transversim arcuato-excavatum,basi sul- 

 catum. Prothorax angulis posticis obliquis, ad elytra liaud 

 arete applicatus ; tarsi articuUs omnibus dilatatis. Ccetera ut 

 in Talaurino. 



The only exponent of this genus is an insect not very unlike 

 Oubicorhynclius maximus, MacLeay, jun. ; but its affinity is appar- 

 ently more with Talaurinus, the sculpture of its rostrum being a 

 somewhat extreme modification of the typical characters, but 

 having tbe tarsal joints unusually dilated. The granules on the 

 protborax are fitted into one another, somewhat like tbe scales on 

 a fish. 



MoLOCHTUS GAGATES. (PL II. fig. 9.) M. oblongTis, subplanatus, 

 niger, uitidissimus ; fronte valde convexa, opaca, subtiliter punctata; 

 rostro utrinque supra scrobes fortiter puactato, lamina triangulari 

 profunde excavato ; scape modice elongate ; funicule articulis duobus 

 basalibus obcenicis, caeteris eblonge-menilifermibus j clava longe 

 pedunculata ; pretherace ti-ansverse, antice sulcate, supra confertis- 

 sime granulate, postice uti'inque dente parve instructo; elytris trans- 

 verse foveatis, tuberculis conieis cenfertim instructis, humeris 

 rotundatis dente minore armatis ; corpore infra tenuiter punctate. 

 Long. 9-11 lin. 



Hab. West Australia. 



CuBicoRHYNCHUS ciCHLODES. C ovatus, niger, interrupte silaceo- 

 squamosus ; restre latissimo, late excavate, in medio canaliculate ; 

 fronte rostroque vittis duebus silaceis ornatis ; funicule articulis 

 quatuor ultimis breviter obconicis ; oculis lenge evatis ; pretherace 

 transverse, sat remote nitide granulate, supra albide-trivittate ; 

 elytris pene medium latieribus, transversim subcerrugatis, seriatim 

 granulatis, derso utrinque vitta albida decorate ; corpore infra nitide 

 nigre, segmentis singulis abdominis in medio silacee-netatis. Long. 

 4^1 bn. 

 Hab. West Australia. 



A well-marked species, somewbat resembling Talaurinus crice- 

 tus, but wbich, except for the spine or tooth over its eye, might 

 have been referred to Sclerorhinus. Another species, Acantho- 

 lophus SGotobioides, Hope's MS., is probably, according to the 

 short description of Mr. Waterhouse, the male of G. Bohemani * 



* In this species and one or two others not described, the anterior coxa are 

 not contiguous; but as they are so in C. calcaratus, MacLeay, jun., which cannot 



