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distincto, his quam clypei anguli minus productis ; elevatione 

 antica ut carina fere recta sat distincta ; vertice medio sat 

 fortiter sat crebre punctulato at foveola elongata impresso ; 

 prothorace quam latiori sublongiori, antrorsum leviter angus- 

 tato, canaliculate, utrinque ante basin foveola elongata leviter 

 impresso ; elytris elongatis, punctulato-striatis, stria quinta 

 antice extrorsum flexa, interstitiis antice leviter postice vix 

 convexis ; tibiis anticis extus supra digitationem terminalem 

 tridentatis, dentibus 2 inferioribus sat robustis ; piosterno 

 ad latera transversim strigato. [Long. 3, lat. \ line. 



This species pertains to M. Putzeys' 29th "groupe" of Clivina, 

 which is distinguished from the other "groupes" found in Aus- 

 tralia by the 5th stria (not the 4th) of the elytra being connected 

 on the base of the elytra with the 8th stria. Of this "groupe," 

 the described species except melanopyga, Putz., and obliquata, 

 Putz., are much smaller than the present one (and otherwise very 

 different from it) ; melanopyga is differently coloured, has the 

 strise of its elytra much more strongly punctured, &c. ; in 

 obliquata (which I have not to my knowledge seen) inter alia the 

 subbasal impres.sions of the prothorax are stated to be wanting. 



Oodnadatta ; Central Australia. 



MiRosARUS INSULARIP, Bates. 



Mr. Simson, the captor of the specimens on which Mr. Bates 

 founded this name, has sent me two examples of the insect taken 

 in Tasmania. I can find no character to distinguish it from the 

 species that de Castelnau described under several names, — Har- 

 palus Adelaides, H. marginicollis, &c.; Mr. Siinson tells me that 

 M. Putzeys considered it identical with de Castelnau's insect. 



Trechus baldiensis, sp.nov. 



Sat elongatus; minus depressiis ; nitidus ; nigro-piceus, palpis 

 pedibus antennarum basi et elytrorum apice rufescentibus ; 

 prothorace sat foititer transverso, antice quam postice parum 



