166 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVIMDES, 



carinate — it might be described as nearly obsolete. The specimen 

 (^) from which the measurements used in the description were 

 taken was 8-4 mm. in length. 



Clivixa cvlindriformis, n sp. 



Narrow, cylindrical. Head with recurved facial sulci; pro- 

 thorax as long as Ijroad, longitudinally convex; elytra strongly 

 punctate-striate, fourth stria free, lightly outturned at base, fifth 

 joining sixth at base; prostenium with intercoxal part very 

 narrow anteriorly; anterior tibia? 3-dentate. Head, prothorax, 

 and under surface of body piceous black; elytra piceous brown 

 (piceous black near suture at beginning of apical declivity;; under 

 surface of prothorax piceous red; legs ferruginous. 



Head convex (11 x 1-3 mm.); clypeus divided from front by 

 a wide punctate impression, an elongate punctate depression in 

 middle of front extending backwards from this impression; sides 

 of head punctate behind eyes, the puncturation strong on each 

 side above base of facial carinse; median part of clypeus emargi- 

 nate-truncate, bordered, its angles widely obtuse, hardly projecting 

 beyond wings; these small, subrotundate in front with exteriuxl 

 margin widely rounded (their margin extends in a slightly uneven 

 curve from median part to supra-antennal plates); supra-antennal 

 plates large, explanate towai'ds margin, projecting strongly and 

 shai'ply beyond wings of clypeus, rounded on external margin; 

 facial sulci strongly impressed, a short impression extending back- 

 wards from their anterior part on each side of vertex; facial 

 carinfe strong, elongate; eyes convex, rather prominent, lightly 

 enclosed behind; guise lightly striate on anterior part. Prothorax 

 lievigate, convex, as long as broad (1'8 x 1-8 mm.), widest a little 

 before the posterior angles, lightly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 

 1-6 mm.); sides very lightly rounded; postei'ior angles not marked; 

 basal curve rounded; anterior margin truncate; anterior angles 

 subprominent, obtuse; border narrow on sides; median line 

 linear, deep; anterior line obsolete; latei*al basal impressions lightly 

 marked. Elytra hardly wider than prothorax (-i x 1-9 mm.), 

 very convex, sides lightly rounded; base roundly truncate; seventh 



