BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 713 



lb is proposed now to review the Australian species of the 

 genus Clivina on the basis of my former " Revision," merely- 

 indicating an}' alterations which seem to me needful in their 

 classification or nomenclature, and recording such new species as 

 have come into my possession. 



In July, 1896, (the date of my " Revision ") the number of 

 recognised Australian species of the genus Clivina (using the 

 genus in the wide sense which I have adopted) was eighty-five, 

 and three varieties. Since 1896, the Rev. Thos. Blackburn has 

 described one species, C. eyrensis, which, however, he now 

 regards as a synonym of C. denticollis, SI.;* and he has reduced 

 C. adelaidce, Blkb., to a synonym of C. obliquata, Putz. I now 

 regard C. sulcicpllis, SI., as a species distinct from C. punc- 

 taticeps, Putz., so that the number of species stands as eighty- 

 five, and two varieties. It is now suggested that six of these 

 must be regarded as synonyms, the number being thus reduced 

 to seventy-nine species, to which I have to add eleven new 

 specific and one varietal names. The total number of species in 

 the Australian list at the present date may be taken to be 

 ninety species and three named varieties. 



In this connection I wish to place on record the following 

 opinions : — 



C. suturalis, Putz. — It is my belief that C. verticalis, Putz., 

 was founded on an immature specimen of C. suturalis, Putz.; also 

 that C. discoidalis, Blkb., is conspecific with C. suturalis. Putzeys 

 placed C. suturalis and C. verticalis in such positions in his 

 different notes on them as seem to necessitate their being species 

 with the fourth and fifth striae of the elytra united at the base, 

 but he never recorded this as actually occurring in these species, 

 and he originally placed C. planiceps, Putz., similarly, so that 

 this evidence being useless in the one case, may be equally so in 

 the other {vide Sloane, these Proceedings, 1896, pp. 169, 204 and 

 205). 



G. dimidiata, Putz., seems to me as if it might have been 

 founded on C. melanopyga, Putz. (vide Sloane, ibid. p. 205). 



* Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust. 1901, p. 113. 



