BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 173 



A well-known species, which may be distinguished by the 

 following note : — 



C3'lindrical. Black, under surface piceous, legs reddish or 

 reddish piceous. Head large (2-3 x 2-3 mm.), depressed, rugu- 

 lose; clypeus with wings strongly and obliquely advanced beyond 

 the truncate median part. Prothorax longer than broad (3 "5 x 3*3 

 mm.), lightly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 3 mm.). El3-tra 

 parallel (7'6 x 3 5 mm.), crenulate-striate; four inner strife free 

 at base, fourth a little outturned at base, fifth joining sixth 

 at base; eighth interstice distinct on apical curve; a submarginal 

 carina at shoulders. Anterior tibise 3-dentate. 



Length 12-5-16"5, breadth 3-4 mm. 



Hab. : N.S. Wales — Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers. 



M. Putzeys in his "Postscriptum" places this species in a group 

 characterised by having the fourth and fifth striae confluent at 

 base; he makes no reference to this feature in his description, 

 nor does he remark on it in Stett. Ent. Zeit., nor in his " Revision 

 Generale," where he merely puts it in Scolyptus, and places 

 Ceratoyhssns nigiceps, Macl., as a synonym without comment. 

 Rarely the fourth interstice does turn outwards at the base, and 

 actually join the fifth; one such example is in my collection fi-om 

 Muhvala on the Murray, where this species is very common. 



Clivina crassicollis, Putzeys. 



Scolyptus crassicollis, Putz., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1866, x. p. 25. 



The following is a translation of Putzeys' whole description 

 i^sic) of this species : — 



Larger than C 'phmiceps; its elj^ti^a are proportionately more 

 elongate; the prothorax is very noticeably more convex, more 

 declivous particularly towards the anterior angles; the anterior 

 margin is less emarginate. 



Length 18, el. 9, breadth 4 mm. 



New South Wales — two specimens. 



The above is an example of the uselessness of some of M. 

 Putzeys' descriptions; it might be founded on the large specimens 



