722 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Clivina debilis, sp.nov. 



Sat angusta ; sat parallela ; minus depressa ; nigra ; antennis, 

 palpis, mandibulis (apice excepto), clypei lateribus et pedibus, 

 testaceis ; prothorace postice quam antice vix latiori, postice 

 utrinque lineatim longitudinaliter impresso, sat Isevi, longitudine 

 latitudini aequali ; elytris sat fortiter striatis, striis fortiter punc- 

 tulatis postice subobsoletis, stria 4^ basi baud extrorsum contorta ; 

 interstitiis sat planis ; clypeo utrinque baud ultra alam (hac vix 

 distincta) producto ; tibiis anticis externe dentibus 3 (dente 4° 

 obsoleto) instructis. Long. 2], lat. f line (vix). 



Var. C?) Minor (long. 2 lines), dilutior, paullo minus convexa. 



The 5th (not the 4th) stria connecting at the base with the 8th 

 distinguishes this species from most of its congeners ; from the 

 rest it may be separated by the front outline of the clypeus not 

 projecting on either side beyond the "wings," the prothorax 

 having a distinct longitudinal impressed line on either side near 

 the base, and the uppermost (4th) tooth of the anterior tibiae being 

 scarcely indicated. 



Port Lincoln. The var. 1 occurs near Adelaide. 



CRATOCERIDES. 



Phorticosomus Randalli, sp.nov. 



Piceo-brunneus ; nitidus ; antennis, labro, palpis, pedibusque, 

 ruf escentibus ; prothorace obsolete canaliculato, antice subtrun - 

 cato, postice quam antice baud angustiori, angulis posticis 

 rotundatis ; elytris sat fortiter striatis, striis latera versus 

 gradatim obsoletescentibus. [Long. 6, lat. 2| lines. 



Closely allied to P. felix, Schaum, and F. brunneus, Blackb. 

 From the former it differs in the colour of the antennae, in the 

 prothorax almost truncate in front, with hind angles quite 

 rounded off, and a distinct flattened transverse space in front of 

 the base (as in P. brunneus) and in the elytral striae becoming 

 quite feeble towards the lateral margins. From P. brunneus it 



