712 EEVISIONAL NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CARABID^E, I., 



wide, its declivity vertical, rounded — but becoming wide and flat 

 near base. Mesosternum with epiuiera very wide and reaching 

 coxfe. Metasternum small, very short between intermediate and 

 posterior coxse; episterna short, narrowed posteriorly, a strongly 

 impressed reniform longitudinal fovea on middle of posterior half. 

 Femora stout ; anterior compressed, lower and anterior sides 

 flattened, posterior side convex, upper side almost semicircular; 

 posterior femora with lower side strongly dilatate at apex of 

 trochanters. Anterior tibiae stout, wide; apical prolongation 

 wide wdth apex obliquely truncate; outer edge deepl}^ trisinuate 

 with a wide explanate projection above the two anterior sinu- 

 osities; inner apical spur long, slender, acute; upper internal 

 spur long, slender, curved : intermediate tibiae wide, with two 

 strong compressed external teeth towards apex; margin explanate 

 and strongly crenulate above upper tooth; posterior tibiae stout, 

 incrassate; an external tooth at apex; outer edge unequally and 

 shortly denticulate : anterior tarsi narrow; basal joint longer 

 than four succeeding joints together, reaching beyond apical pro- 

 longation and paronj^chium of tibite; joints 2-4 small, subequai; 

 middle and posterior tarsi similar, but joints 2-4 more elongate — 

 in middle tarsi as long as, in posterior longer than first joint. 

 Length 24-5, breadth 7 "7 mm. 



This remarkable species is quite isolated among the Australian 

 Clivinides, but seems more related to Clivina procera^ Putz., than 

 to any other species known to me. The elytra are essentially 

 those of a Clivina allied to C. procera (each elytron is 7-striate 

 with a wide marginal channel closely set with umbilicate punc- 

 tures). C. procera has somew^hat similar maxillae, with closely 

 set strong bristles on inner side, but without the teeth of Platys- 

 phyrus. 



Genus G l i v i n a. 



Latreille, Consid. Gener. 1810, p. 156; (Revision), Putzeys, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. 1866; (Supplement), Putzeys, ibid. xi. 

 1868; (Australian Species), Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxi. 

 1896. 



