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CUBICORRHYNCHUS RECTIPES, n. Sp. 



c? . Size comparatively large; in general appearance 

 close to C . aureomaculatus. Black; densely, almost uniformly 

 clothed with squames of a coppery-golden colour ; setae light - 

 yellow; legs densely clothed with creamy squames. 



Rostrum much as in C . aureomaculatus . Head with the 

 supra-ocular crests stronger, and projecting slightly forwards 

 as well as upwards. Protliorax (4 x 4'5 mm.) apparently 

 somewhat less transverse; the subapical constriction wider, 

 less regular, the lateral margins more strongly and irregularly 

 dentate ; the anterior margin distinctly sinuate in the middle ; 

 the posterior margin without granules, except the two central 

 basal ones, which are slightly larger than in C . aureomacu- 

 latus; disc with granules larger, arranged after the same 

 plan. Elytra (9x6 mm.) more obovate, feebly convex 

 above; interstices with the granules slightly, but distinctly 

 larger, somewhat variable in size ; sides and under-surf ace as 

 in (7. aureomaculatus, except that the apical punctures are 

 somewhat coarser. Anterior coxae contiguous ; anterior tibiae 

 rather feebly curved ; posterior tibiae straight ; granules on 

 under-surf ace of tibiae fine, obscured by clothing. 



0. Resembles male; clothing dense, variable, coppery- 

 gold, variegated with darker brown and silvery-white ; legs 

 thickly clothed with whitish and coppery scales. Beneath 

 convex, nitid, the intermediate segments each with a trans- 

 verse row of shallow, rather wide, but almost obsolete punc- 

 tures; apical segment with shallow punctures at apex, with a 

 conspicuous creamy patch of squames, with coppery reflections, 

 on either side; the other segments very feebly maculate at 

 sides. Dim. — Male, 15 x 6 mm. ; female, 14 x 6 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Type 

 in author's collection. 



The scales clothing this species are, particularly on the 

 female, most beautiful when seen with a lens. The clothing 

 of the female is variable, but in all specimens the coppery- 

 metallic scales predominate. Many of the specimens show no 

 silvery scales on the prothorax and elytra ; in the female 

 type, however, these are present along the middle and sides 

 of the pronotum, and are scattered in irregular maculae on 

 the elytra. The rostrum and anterior portion of the head 

 are always clothed, except in the middle, with white or 

 creamy squames, the posterior portion of the head being 

 clothed with coppery-golden squames. Though closely allied 

 to C . aureomaculatus, this species is, I think, distinct. Apart 

 from the clothing, and slight differences in the comparative 

 sizes of the supra-orbital crests and of the granules, the male 

 of C . rectipes may be readily distinguished by the straight 



