604 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF CARABID^E, 



//rt6.— North- West Australia : Fortescue River, Hanimersley 

 Range (W. D. Dodd). Unique in South Australian Museum 

 Coll. 



This species is such an important one, connecting C. pnnc- 

 taticeps Putz., with C. ferriiginea Putz., etc., that I have ven- 

 tured to describe it on a single specimen. It can be readil}' 

 separated from all other Australian species of the genus (Jlivina 

 by the presence of the following two characters which occur 

 together in no other Australian species, viz., (fl)clypeus emargin- 

 ate as in C. sellata Putz.; (5) femora with posterior margin of 

 lower side strongly lobate; the lobe is about half-way between 

 the point of the coxa and the apex of the femur, and is more 

 suddenly raised, and more prominent than in C. pnncfaticeps 

 Putz., or C. tumidipes SI. 



Clivina darwini, n.sp. 



Robust, convex. Head wide, clypeus deeply truncate-emar- 

 ginate; prothorax as broad as long (2 x 2 mm.), anterior angles 

 marked; elytra oval, fourth and fifth stria; uniting at base, 

 seventh and eighth interstices uniting at base to form a short 

 carina, eighth interstice not indicated by a carina near apex; 

 prosternum with intercoxal part wide anteriorly, basal declivity 

 non-sulcate, episterna shagreened, finely transversely striolate; 

 metasternum between intermediate and posterior coxfe shorter 

 than posterior coxse, episterna small and short; anterior tibiae 

 3-dentate. Piceous-black, undersurface and legs reddish-piceous, 

 antennte and palpi ferruginous. 



Head large, convex; eyes prominent, clypeus deeply and widely 

 truncate-eniarginate (as in C. frogyatti SI.); lateral parts of 

 clypeus not divided from median part, lightly and roundly 

 advanced; supra-antennal plates rounded externally, divided 

 from lateral parts of clypeus by a light sinuosity. Prothorax 

 convex (2x2 mm.), lightly narrowed anteriorly; anterior margin 

 truncate; anterior angles well marked, subrectangular; basal 

 curve short. Elytra oval (3-7 x 2-1 mm.), convex; shoulders 

 rounded; striae deep, finely crenulate; interstices convex near 



