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STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



No. XV. New Genera and Species of CARABiDiE, with some 

 Notes on Synonymy (Clivinini, Scaritini, Cunipectini, 

 Trigonotomini and Lebiini). 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



(Continued from Vol. xxix., 190 4, p.538.) 



BIPARTITI. 



A character which differentiates the two tribes of the Bipartiti 

 (as represented in the Australian fauna), but which has not been 

 noticed, is the seta near the tip of the basal joint of the antennae 

 on the upper side; this is present in all Australian species of the 

 Clivinini, but absent in all our representatives of the Scaritini. 

 M}^ data are not sufficient to enable me to report on this feature 

 in the faunas of other parts of the world, but the species of 

 Scarites which I have examined have had no trace of this seta. 



Only once have I seen a member of the tribe Scaritini in which 

 this seta was present; viz., one specimen of Scdraphites lenoius 

 Westw., (a species in which the seta is normally wanting). This 

 seems a case of atavistic reversion, suggesting that the Scaritini 

 are descended from a stock in which the seta was present, and so 

 strengthening my impression that the present day Scaritini are 

 less ancient than the Clivinini. 



Tribe CLIVININI. 



Genus C l i v i n a. 



Clivina banksi, n.sp. 



Elongate. Head wide before the eyes; elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate, fourth stria joining fifth at base, interstices greatly 

 raised near base, eighth carinate near base, narrow and carinate 

 on apical curve; anterior tibiae strongly 3-dentate, paronychium 



