218 . ON THK AUSTRALIAN CIAVINIDES, 



3-dentate; apical digitatiori long, lightly arcuate; external teeth 

 short, prominent; inner apical sj^ine as long as apical digitation, 

 truncate, not incrassate. 



Length G'5-7"5, breadth l-9-2'2 mm. 



Hab. : West Australia — 8wan River, Newcastle, and Donny- 

 brook (Lea). 



Very closely allied to C. lepida, Putz., with which it agi-ees in 

 facies; the head is similar, the prothorax seems a little narrower 

 and longer, the elytra present no diffei'ences. The reasons for 

 regarding it as distinct from C. lepida are that the prosternum 

 is without pectoral ridges, and not so decidedly (if at all) trans- 

 versely sulcate on base; and, that the anterior tibia? differ slightly, 

 their external teeth being longer and more prominent, the apical 

 digitation longer and less obtuse, and the inner apical spine not 

 incrassate at apex. 



Clivina simulans, n.sp. 



Robust, elongate, parallel, subcylindrical. Head smooth; pro- 

 thorax as long as broad, narrowed anteriorly; elytra with fourth 

 stria outturn ed and joining fifth at base, eighth interstice shortly 

 subcarinate at base, narrowly carinate near apex; anterior tibia^ 

 3-dentate, ^ with external teeth much weaker than <2, and with 

 inner apical spine long, incrassate, obtuse. Black, shining; anterior 

 legs piceous brown; antennte and four posterior legs ferruginous. 



Head smooth, strongly roundly angustate befoi^e eyes; the 

 lateral sinuosity between the wings of clypeus and supra-antennal 

 plates hardly perceptible; front and vertex convex, Ijevigate : 

 clypeus not divided from front; a wide depressed space near 

 anterior margin; clypeal elevation raised, lunulate; anterior 

 margin roundly emarginate; wings not divided from median part, 

 small, external angles rounded. Prothorax convex, almost equal 

 in length and breadth (248 x 2-5 mm.), narrowed anteriorly (ant. 

 width 2mm. ) ; lateral basal impressions elongate,decidedly impi'essed. 

 Elytra truncate-oval (5*9 mm. x 2-8 mm.), convex; sides parallel; 

 striae strongly impi-essed, crenulate-punctate; interstices convex 

 on disc, depressed towards apex, seventh and eighth uniting at 



