BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 83 



Clivina iEQUALis, Blackb. 



In describing this species (P.L.S.N.S.W., 1889, p. 718) I find 

 I omitted to mention an important character, viz., that it has a 

 perfectly well defined abbreviated punctulate stria on either side 

 of the scutellum on the basal part of the juxta-sutural interstice. 

 Owing to the presence of this additional stria, it should be noted, 

 the stria that is bent outwards at the base to meet one of the 

 external striae is the 5th counted along the base, but the 4th (as 

 stated in my description) if the count be taken a little behind 

 the base. 



ANISODACTYLIUES. 

 Hypharpax (Harpalus) australis, Dej. 



I have recently taken near Sydney two male examples which 

 I have no doubt are referable to this species, of which I had 

 previously seen only females. A study of these males shows 

 them to be perfectly distinct from Harpalus inornatus, Germ., 

 although so like it that apart from the sexual characters there 

 might be room for doubt whether the differences are really specific. 

 The hind femora of these examples are devoid of the tooth that 

 is found in the males of so many species of Hypharioax, and which 

 is very strongly developed in inornatus, and the hind tibise are 

 nearly straight, the same in inornatus being strongly bent inward 

 near the apex. Apart from these sexual characters the hind 

 tarsi of these examples are not quite so short as those of inornatus 

 but I cannot specify any other reliable distinction, unless it be 

 that their prothorax is a trifle more strongly transverse, and with 

 hind angles a little better defined than the same in H. inornatus. 

 According to the Baron de Chaudoir's diagnosis of Hypharpax 

 (Ann. Mus. Gen., 1878, p. 496) its essential distinction from 

 Diaphoromerus consists in the dentate hind femora of the male, 

 but it was pointed out by Mr. Bates in the same year (Cist. Ent., 

 II., 320) that this is not a constant character, and in Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S. A. (1887, p. 182) I expressed the opinion that the true 

 character of the genus consists in the short hind tarsi — a character 



