216 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVINIDES, 



The above is a translation of the whole of Putzeys' description 

 of C. tnicrodon. I cannot help thinking that it looks not unHke 

 a descinption founded on an immature specimen of C. hasalis, Ch., 

 (^), discoloured with age. 



Clivina dilutipes, Putzeys. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1868, xi. p. 12. 



It appears to me likely that M. Putzeys confused two species 

 under tliis name, viz., the Victorian species which I consider 

 C. vagans, Putz., and a species from the coastal districts between 

 S3^dney and Brisbane, to which I attribute the name C. dilutipes. 

 It is to be regretted that M. Putzeys gave no indication of the 

 differences which divided C. dilutipes from C vagans, for it seems 

 not unlikely that both may have been founded on the same 

 species; however, as there appear to be two closely allied species, 

 to either of which either name seems equally applicable, it is 

 probably best to apply the older name, C. vagans, to the species 

 which it strikes me as being most fitted to, and then to allot the later 

 name to the remaining species. The resemblance between these two 

 species is very great, the only points of difference apparent to me 

 being that, in C. dilutipes the elytra are more deeply striate, with 

 coarser punctures in the strife, and the prosternum is not sulcate 

 on the base. The following is a description of C dilutij^es : — 



Narrow, cylindrical. Head small, smooth, lightly bi-impressed; 

 prothorax convex, sides rounded; elytra narrow, strongly punctate- 

 striate, fourth stria joining fifth at base; prosternum with inter- 

 coxal part wide anteriorly, non- sulcate on base; anterior tibia? 

 lightly 3-dentate. Black (sixth and seventh interstices sometimes 

 piceous red on anterior third), legs piceous (four posterior often 

 testaceous). 



Head small, narrowly angustate before eyes; front and vertex 

 lightly convex between facial sulci; clypeus not divided from 

 front, roundly emarginate; facial sulci lightly impressed, sub- 

 parallel, hardly divergent posteriorly; eyes convex, enclosed 

 behind. Prothorax as broad as long (1-75 x 1-75 mm.), convex, 



