BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 



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irregular, rugose: clypeus with median part divided from wings 

 by a carinate ridge, widely and squarely emarginate, its angles 

 poiTect, projecting strongly forward in a triangular prominence; 

 wings small, angular, anterior margin truncate and about on a 

 level with margin of median part; supra-antennal plates short, 

 wide, projecting sharply and widely beyond wings of clypeus, 

 external angles widely rounded; eyes large, globose, prominent, 

 lightly enclosed. Prothoi\ax cylindrical, parallel, very widely and 

 lightly sinuate on each side, longer than broad (4x3 mm.), 

 lightly convex longitudinally, lightly transversely striolate (the 

 striolje wavy and more strongly impressed near sides); anterior 

 angles very obtuse, rounded from anterior marginal puncture to 

 neck; posterior angles rounded, not marked; basal curve short; 

 base wide; border narrow and retlexed on sides, a little upturned 

 at posterior angles, wide on base, very wide and declivous along 

 anterior margin; marginal channel obsolete on sides. Elytra 

 narrow, cylindrical (10-5 x 3-5 mm.), shortly, not vertically, 

 declivous to base; shoulders rounded, not marked; strise entire, 

 closely and strongly punctate, the punctures becoming finer from 

 base to apex; interstices hardly convex; three posterior punctures 

 of third interstice on apical half; marginal channel narrow, not 

 deep, lightly punctate. Anterior legs stout; femora thick, com- 

 pressed; posterior edge of lower side roundly and widely dilatate; 

 intermediate tibife incrassate, external edge arcuate, spinose, 

 bidentate. 



Length 18, breadth 3-5 mm. 



Hab. : Queensland (sent to me by Mr. C. ^French as coming 

 from the Gulf of Carpentaria, opposite Wellesley Islands). 



Distribution of tlie AustraHan Clivinifles. 

 I have thought that a few notes on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of the Clivinides in Australia may be not without interest, 

 though the observations I can offer on the subject must be very 

 defective owing to the scantiness of my knowledge of the range 

 of the various species. The only parts of the continent that ha^•e 

 been tolerably well searched for these insects seem to be the 



