BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 731 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Burruiidie (Dr. Bovill; Coll. Black- 

 burn) — Q. : Burketown District and Dawson River (Coll. Sloane); 

 Port Darwin (large form or variety; Colls. Macleay and Sloane). 



Note. — C. obscuripes is wrongly entered in Mr. Masters' Cata- 

 logue, Supplement, Part i. 1895, as Scolyptus obscuripennis. 



Clivina elegans, Putzeys. 



Mem. Liege, 1853, xviii. p. 44; Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1866; xxvii. 

 p. 36; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. p. 179; Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, 1896, xxi. p. 231 : Ceratoglossa foveiceps, Macleay, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1863, i. p. 73 : Scolyptus oblongus, 

 Putz., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1873, xvi. p. 10. 



I now think C. elegans, Putz., must be taken to include Cerato- 

 glossa foveiceps, MacL, and Scolyptus oblongus, Putz. 



Clivina robqsta, n.sp. 



Robust, convex. Black; legs piceous, tibiae and tarsi reddish- 

 piceous; anteniiiie reddish. Head, striation of elytra, prosternum, 

 metasternum with episterna, and legs as in C. elegans, Putzeys. 



(J. Prothorax hardly longer than broad (4*4 x 4*3 mm.), widest 

 behind middle, strongly narrowed to apex (3*2 mm.), lightly 

 convex; apex emarginate; anterior angles distant from head, 

 marked but obtuse. Elytra oval (9 '5 x 5 mm.), convex; sides 

 rounded; striae narrow, crenulate at bottom; interstices convex 

 near base, hardly convex near apex, third 5- or 6-punctate — 

 posterior puncture near apex of third striae. Length 17, breadth 

 5 mm. 



^a6.— N.S.W. : Gosford (H. J. Carter; Colls. Carter and 

 Sloane). 



This may prove to be a form or variety of C. elegans, Putzeys, 

 but, unless further knowledge proves this to be the case, it seems 

 to require a separate name. It has the head transversely im- 

 pressed behind eyes, and the metasternal episterna short as in 

 C. elegans, but differs conspicuously from that species by size 

 larger, form more robust and convex; prothorax wider and more 

 convex, much more strongly ampliate on each side of peduncle 



