178 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVIXIDES, 



widest just behind anterior angles, convex, slightly depressed on 

 each side of median line, abruptly declivous to base; sides parallel; 

 anterior margin emarginate in middle; anterior angles obtuse, 

 explanate: posterior angles wide, but marked; basal curve short; 

 lateral border wide and reflexed on sides, interrupted and upturned 

 at posterior angles just befoi'e posterior marginal puncture, thick 

 and indistinct on anterior j)art of basal curve, obsolete on posterior 

 part and not reaching base; border strongly reflexed and marginal 

 channel wide on base; median and anterior lines strongly im- 

 pi'essed; lateral marginal punctures large, anterior placed near 

 anterior angle on the explanate border. Elytra convex, very 

 little wider than prothorax (5-7 x 31 mm. \ hardly narrowed to 

 base, wide at apex; sides lightly rounded; base truncate; shoulder.s 

 rounded; striee entire, crenulate, strongly impressed, weaker on 

 apical decHvity, fifth joining sixth at base, seventh obsolete on 

 apical curve; interstices convex, eighth obsolete towards apex; 

 submarginal humeral carina short, thick; lateral border wide, 

 reflexed. Prosternum with intercoxal part lightly concave, 

 narrow (not attenuate) anteriorly, base abrupt, not transversely 

 sulcate; episterna overhanging in front, transversely rugulose- 

 striate. Ventral segments smooth, excepting two basal ones 

 lightly longitudinally striolate. Anterior femora light, lower side 

 straight; anterior tibite 4-dentate, apex strongly outturned, 

 external teeth wide apart, strong, triangular; external spur of 

 intermediate tibii^e fine, acute. 



Length 10 5, breadth 3-1 mm. 



Hah. : Queensland — Gulf of Carpentaria (one specimen, given 

 to me by Mr. C. French). 



r u n c t aticep s gr o up. 



Size small. Facial sulci not recurved; clypeus with median 

 part emarginate, its angles more or less marked. Elytra with 

 fourth and fifth strife confluent at base, seventh not interrupted 

 at Ijeginning of apical curve; submarginal humeral carina well 

 marked; a distinct elongate striole at base of first interstice. 



