BY THOMA? G. SLOANE. 169 



Clivixa dorsalis, Blackburn. 



P.L.S.N.S.W. 1889 (2), iv. p. 719. 



Parallel, lightly convex. Black; elytra red with a Ijlack 

 sutural stripe (this stripe occup3ang only first interstice at base, 

 widening posteriorly and extending over three inner interstices, 

 not reaching apex); anterior legs ferruginous, four posterior 

 testaceous Front punctate; clypeus with median part lightly 

 emarginate-truncate, its angles hardly marked, its wings small with 

 anterior margin truncate, their exterior angles obtuse but marked; 

 facial sulci recurved. Prothorax quadrate (1'2 x 1-2 mm.), 

 evenly and lightly convex, punctulate. Elytra a little broader 

 than prothorax (2 '5 x 1*35 mm ), widely rounded at apex, evenly 

 and lightly convex; stride strongly impressed, entire, punctate, 

 fifth joining sixth at base. Prosternum with intercoxal part 

 attenuate anteriorly, transversely sulcate on base; episterna 

 minutely shagreened, obsoletely transversely striolate. Anterior 

 tibise 4-dentate, the upper tooth very feeble. 



Length 5, breadth l'35mm. 



Hab. : Victoria (Kershaw); South Australia — Adelaide, Port 

 Lincoln (Blackburn); West Australia — King George's Sound 

 (Masters), Beverley (Lea). 



This species agrees with M. Putzeys' original desciiption of 6'. 

 sntui'alis in every particular, except that from the group in 

 which he placed C. suturalis it should have the fourth stria 

 joining the fifth at the base, but he placed C. planiceps in the 

 same group as also having the fourth stria joining the fifth at 

 the base, which was incorrect, and it is impossible for me to avoid 

 a suspicion that C. dorsalis, Blkb., = 6'. sntiiraHs, Putz. If so, 

 Putzeys' description is erroneous, and nothing bat an inspection 

 of his type, or the discovery of a species coloured like C. dorsal is, 

 and having the fourth and fifth stripe of the elytra confluent at 

 the base, can now settle the point.* 



* See descriptions of C. suturalis and C. verticalis {post) for furtlier 

 remarks on this subject. 



