BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 



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narrowed anteriorly (ant. Aviclth 1-35 mm.); lateral basal impressions 

 short, linear, well marked. Elytra nari'ow (4 x 1-9 mm.), widest 

 a little behind middle; sides sul:)parallel, hardly narrowed to 

 shoulders; base truncate; shoulders rounded, not marked; strite 

 strongl}^ impi-essed, deeply punctate, lighter towards apex; inter- 

 stices convev near base, depressed behind basal third, eighth finely 

 carinate at base and near apex. 



Length 6-5-7 -5, breadth 1 •8-2-2 mm. 



Hab. : IsT. S. Wales — Windsor, Clarence River, and Tweed River 

 (Lea); Queensland — Brisbane (Coates). 



The specimens from the Tweed River and Brisbane are darker 

 coloured and have a greater tendency to lose the piceous red patch 

 on the anterior part of the sides than those from the Clarence 

 River. 



Clivina angustipes, Putzeys. 



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



Narrow, elongate. Black; legs dark piceous; antennae, palpi, 

 and tarsi ferruginous. Head small, smooth, convex, narrow, 

 angustate without any sinuosity before eyes; clypeus bordered, 

 roundly emarginate; frontal impressions arcuate, deep; eyes 

 convex, prominent. Prothoi'ax longer than broad (1-75 x 1 -7 mm.), 

 greatly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 1-4 mm. \ lightly rounded 

 on sides, smooth, convex; anterior angles obtuse; median line 

 lightly impressed; anterior line strongly impressed; lateral basal 

 impressions short, linear, distinct. Elytra a little broader than 

 prothorax (3-8 x 2 mm.), lightly convex, parallel on sides; base 

 truncate; shoulders rounded; stripe moderate, becoming shallow 

 towards apex, strongl}' punctate (the punctures very fine towards 

 apex), first flexuous near base, fourth outturned and joining fifth 

 at base; interstices lightly convex near base, depressed towards 

 apex, eighth cai-inate near shoulders, narrowly carinate on apical 

 curve. Prostei'num without pectoral ridges; intercoxal part 

 wide at base, angustate but remaining wide anteriorly, transverse 

 sulcus of base lightly marked, sometimes obsolete; episterna 

 rugulose and transversely striolate. Anterior tibiae narrow, 



