BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 213 



Clivina basalis, Chaudoir. 



Bull. Mosc. 1843, iv. p. 733; Putzeys, Mem. Liege, 1863, xviii. 

 p. 38. 



Black, base of elj'tra red (the red part about one-third of elytra 

 in middle of disc and sloping backwards to half the length on 

 each side); legs reddish testaceous. Head smooth, convex, 

 angustate with hardly a perceptible sinuosity on each side before 

 eyes; clypeus not divided from front, anterior margin bordered, 

 widely emarginate, anterior angles rounded. Prothorax convex, 

 smooth, of almost equal length and breadth (1-8 x 1-7 mm.), 

 narrowed anteriorl}^ (ant. width TS mm.); sides lightly I'ounded; 

 basal curve short; lateral basal impressions well marked. Elj'^tra 

 lightly convex, a little depresed on disc, lightly rounded on sides, 

 not perceptibly narrowed to base (4x2 mm.), strongly punctate- 

 striate; the stri;e entire, but weaker towards apex, fourth out- 

 turned and joining fifth at base; five inner interstices convex 

 towards base, becoming flat towards apex, eighth distinctly 

 marked on apical curve; a submarginal carina at shoulder. 

 Prosternum with intercoxal part wide anteriorly, transverse 

 sulcus of base obsolete. Anterior tibiie 3-dentate: in ,^ narrow, 

 first external tooth strong, short, second shorter, projecting but 

 little beyond margin of tibia; inner apical spine elongate, curved 

 and obtuse at apex: in 9 external teeth much stronger; inner 

 apical spine slender and acute. 



Length 5-75-7,' breadth 1-6-2 mm. 



J/ab. : N.S. Wales -Sydney, Tamworth (Lea), Junee, Narran- 

 dera, Urana, and Mulwala (Sloane); Victoria; South Australia. 



A well known and easily identified species. 



Clivixa FELIX, n.sp. 



Head and prothorax black; elyti'a reddish testaceous, with a 

 large ovate black plaga on the posterior two-thii'ds of disc (not 

 reaching margin), lateral margins and under surface piceous; legs. 



