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prominence above apical projection; anterior trochanters projecting 

 lightly and obtusely beyond base of femora. 



Length 5-6-7, breadth 1-3-1 -7 mm. 



I lab. : N.S. Wales — Junee District, Urana District (Sloane); 

 Victoria — Swan Hill (French); South Australia — Adelaide (Black- 

 burn). 



This species must be very closely allied to C. emarginata, Putz., 

 but evidently differs in colour. I took it plentifully twenty miles 

 north-east from the town of Urana on the margins of tanks dug 

 to water sheep (the only permanent water), in the months of 

 December and January; as many as 32 specimens were washed 

 out of part of the muddy margin of one tank in less than half an 

 hour. 



Clivina emarginata, Putzeys. 



Ann. 8oc. Ent. Belg. 1868, xi. p. 15. 



" Nigra nitida, ore, antennis, pedibus, elytrorum basi apiceque 

 externis testaceis. Clypeus emarginatus, alis suba^qualis. Vertex 

 antice profunde et dense punctatus. Prothorax subquadratus, 

 Ivevis. Elytra cylindrica, basi intus oblique truncata, humeris 

 rotundatis. Femora antica extus in medio inferiore dilatata. 

 Long. 5f, El. 4, Lat. 1^ mill."* 



M. Putzeys supplemented this diagnosis by remarks which I 

 translate as follows : — 



This species forms a link between the twenty-seventh group 

 in which the rounded wings of the epistoma extend considerably 

 beyond the epistoma itself and the twenty-eighth,! in which the 



* It is evident there is an error in these measurements; the length given 

 for the elytra is certainly too great. 



t By twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth groups M. Putzeys appears to 

 have meant, on this occasion, the groups of which C. nyctosyloides, Putz., 

 for which he formed a new tAventy-seventh group in place of his old 

 twenty-seventh, C procera being transferred to Scolyptus, and C. heterogena, 

 Putz., are respectively the types; but as on the following page he refers C. 

 heterogena to a thirtieth group it is apparent that twenty-eighth is a mistake. 



