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median tooth moderate, triangular, pointed. Mandibles short, 

 thick. Prothorax smooth (a few light i-ugre near sides), parallel, 

 very little wider than head with eyes, longer than broad (1'4 x 

 1 mm.), roundly and strongly declivous to base; anterior margin 

 truncate; base wide; basal curve short, rounded; posterior angles 

 widely rounded; basal angles obtuse; median line well marked, 

 linear. Elytra parallel, cylindrical (3 x 1-2 mm.), truncate at 

 base, widely rounded at apex; apical declivity roundly abrupt; 

 striae entire, lightly impressed, finely punctate; interstices not at 

 all convex, posterior puncture of third much nearer apex than 

 usual. Prosternum with intercoxal part attenuate anteriorl}^, 

 transversely sulcate on base; episterna obsoletely transversely 

 striolate, overhanging anteriorly. Legs short; anterior femora 

 short, thick, rounded on lower side; anterior tibiae strongly 4- 

 dentate; upper tooth short, triangular; posterior tibite short, 

 incrassate. 



Length 5 3, breadth 1-2 mm. 



Hah : South Australia — Lake Callabonna. 



A ver}' distinct species; its narrow cylindrical shape, with the 

 elytra shortly and widely terminated, give it a general resemblance 

 to a member of the family Bodnjckklos. 



Clivina olliffi, n sp. 



Robust, parallel. Head large; prothorax a little broader than 

 long : elytra long, parallel; fourth stria joining fifth at base; 

 submarginal humeral carina feebly developed; eighth interstice 

 marked, but not carinate on apical curve; a we'll marked striole 

 at base of first interstice. Prosternum with intercoxal part 

 attenuate anteriorly; transverse sulcus of base obsolete. Anterior 

 tibije 4-dentate. Black; prothorax piceous black; anterior legs 

 testaceous brown, four posterior legs testaceous. 



Head large (1-3 x I'-o mm.), densely rugose-punctulate on guke 

 and behind eyes; vertex convex, laevigate; front lightly impressed 

 and punctulate in middle, lightly and widely impressed on each 

 side (the impressions a little rugulose); clypeal elevation slightly 



