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is comparatively strongly punctured. The interstices of the elytra 

 are rather strongly convex, somewhat more so than in C. melano- 

 ])yga, the striae being not quite so distinctly punctured as in that 

 species. The external teeth of the anterior tibiae are considerably 

 longer and more slender than in C. melanoiDyga, the 4th {i.e., the 

 uppermost) though small and blunt being quite well defined. The 

 apical spine on the inner margin of the same tibise is much larger 

 in the male than in the female. The flanks of the prosternum are 

 oqaque on a sharply limited space (owing to the presence of close 

 longitudinal strigosity), the opaque space also bearing some trans- 

 verse strigse which are much more continuous and deeply impressed 

 than the longitudinal ones. This sculpture is exceptionally strongly 

 developed, — much more so e.g. than in C. melanoinjga. 

 N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mrs. Bovill. 



Clivina iEQUALis, sp.nov. 



Sat angusta ; sat parallela; sat convexa ; picea ; antennis, 

 palpis, elytris, pedibusque, plus minus ferrugineis ; prothorace 

 postice quam antice vix latiori, basi utrinque haud lineatim 

 impresso, quam longiori paullo latiori ; elytris fortiter striatis, 

 striis sat fortiter punctulatis, stria 4^ basi extrorsum contorta ; 

 clypeo ad latera rotundato vix producto \ tibiis anticis externe 

 dentibus 4 instructis, dente summo parvo, 2° sat magno, 3* 

 majore etiam, apicali ceteros longitudine superanti. 



[Long. 2i, lat. % line. 



Resembles the preceding, but differs as follows : — it is a little 

 more elongate, parallel and convex ; the head and prothorax are 

 of a darker colour ; the clypeus is flatter and still less distinct 

 from its " wings ;" the part which M. Putzeys calls the " anterior 

 elevation " being not distinctly raised, and having no transverse 

 furrow behind it ; the head is wider and less shining ; the pro- 

 thorax is slightly wider in proportion to its length, being by 

 measurement slightly transverse (to the eye it appears scarcely so), 

 it is scarcely at all narrowed forward, the sides are strongly 

 wrinkled transversely except near the front, the longitudinal 



