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Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



Hab. — Australia (Berlin Museum and Entomological Society) ; 

 S. Australia (A. Solari), Adelaide, Beaumont Hills (H. H. D. Griffith); 

 V^ictoria (National Museum). -^ 



There is frequently a sraall pale spot in the middle of the 

 forehead. On the prothorax there are four small distinct spots 

 in the middle placed in pairs , of which the front pair are at a 

 slightly greater distance apart than the hind pair , these being 

 very close together. There is frequently also a small spot on 

 each side , and occasionally there is an additional spot (or two 

 conjoined ones) slightly in advance of the middle. On the elytra 

 the spots are usually fairly numerous, but not conspicuous. 



Readily distinguished from all other species of the genus 

 by the prothoracic spots ; which , on fresh specimens at least, 

 are always very conspicuous. The tibiae of the male are much 

 as in maculatus, except that the granules are rather less noticeable. 

 Most of the Society' s specimens are labelled sepidioides and from 

 Queensland. The species certainly is not sepidioides (see comments 

 under preceding species) and I believe that all the specimens 

 labelled Queensland where taken in S. Australia. 



Cu hicorrhynchus macu latus Macl. 



The types of this species are both females, and their clothing ] 

 is still in excellent preservation. There are numerous specimens 

 of the species before me , but not one of these has the clothing 

 so distinctly variegated as on the types , whilst many have the 

 scales entirely abraded , and very few setae left on the upper 

 surface. 



The male has all the tibiae thickly studded with granules, 

 the hind pair rather strongly curved at the base, and then some- 

 what dilated and slightly curved at apex , the front pair are 

 rather strongly curved at the apex , whilst the middle pair are 

 almost straight. 



The species is very close to the one identified by Macleay 

 as morosus, but differs in being larger (this, however, is not in- 

 variably the case) with the tibiae of the male stouter and more 

 strongly curved, and the granules of the prothorax rather smaller 

 in Proportion. 



The sides of the prothorax are almost identical in the same j 

 sex in each species, although they differ between de sexes. 



The specimens before me are from Australia (Entomological 

 Society), and in my own collection from S. Australia (Adelaide), 

 Victoria (Sea Lake and Benalla) and N. S. Wales (Queanbeyan, 

 Moree, Hay and Adelong). 



