BY THOMAS G. SLOAXE. 1^7 



marked; a well mai^ked sinuosity between wings and supra- 

 antennal plates, these wide, rounded externally; frontal impressions 

 wide, shallow, hardly marked; facial sulci hardly marked, 

 recurved part well marked; facial carinse distant from eyes, 

 straight, carinate; eyes not enclosed behind. Prothorax broader 

 than long (1'3 x 1'4 mm.), very declivous to base; upper surface, 

 excepting basal declivity, densely and strongly rugulose-punctate; 

 sides parallel; anterior margin truncate; anterior angles marked, 

 very lightly advanced; posterior angles rounded; median and 

 anterior lines distinctly marked; lateral basal impressions obsolete. 

 Elytra a little wider than prothorax (3-2 x 1"5 mm.); base trun- 

 cate, deeply and abruptly declivous to peduncle; apex widely 

 rounded; strise shallow, strongly punctate, entire, weaker near 

 apex, seventh weak, obsolete on apical curve; marginal channel 

 shallow in middle. Prosternum with intercoxal part very narrow 

 anteriorly, sulcate on base; episterna overhanging anteriorly, very 

 finely striolate near lateral margins. Anterior tibire wide, 4- 

 dentate; intermediate tibife with external spur distant from apex, 

 long, erect, acute. 



Length 6-6 5, breadth 1"5 mm. 



Hah. : West Australia — King George's Sound (Masters), 

 Beverley (Lea). 



It greatly resembles C. boops, Blkb., some differences being its 

 smaller size, lighter form, the whole of the disc of the prothorax 

 strongly punctate, and the less strongly impressed elytral striae. 

 The description given above is founded on specimens sent to me 

 by Mr. Masters; their colour is coal black; a specimen sent by 

 Mr. Lea is piceous; Putzeys gives the colour, as piceous. 



J\^ote. — It is evident that Putzeys' measurements are incorrect; 

 the species is rather a stoutly built little one, and, even in the 

 most narrow species of Clivina, such a shaj^e for the elytra as 

 " ih X H mm." would be unheai'd of. 



Clivina boops, Blackburn. 



P.L.S.KS.W. 1889 (2), iv. p. 719. 



"Very closely allied to C. crihrom, Putz., which it exactly 

 resembles as to the head, shape of pi'othorax, elytra, legs, &c.; for 



