186 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIViyiDES, 



raised, narrow, arcuate : clypeus wide, depressed; median part 

 truncate, its angles small, triangular, projecting; wings strongly 

 divided from median part, anterior margin sloping lightl}'^ forward 

 to external angles, these prominent, obtuse at apex; supra- 

 antennal plates depressed, very strongly divided from clypeal 

 wings, prominent and rounded externally, eyes convex, not promin- 

 ent, lightly enclosed behind; facial sulci obsolete; facial carinas 

 short, distant from eyes. Mandibles wide, short, lightly 

 decussating. Labrum 5-setose. Mentum rugulose-striate. 

 Labial palpi slender, two apical joints of about equal length. 

 Antennae short, lightly incrassate. Prothorax a little broader 

 than long (1'8 x 1"9 mm.), lightly convex, subdepressed along 

 median line, lightly declivous to base, transversely striolate, 

 lightly punctulate except near anterior margin on middle of disc 

 and on basal declivity; sides parallel, not narrowed anteriorly; 

 posterior angles rounded, not marked; anterior margin truncate 

 on each side, emarginate in middle; anterior angles obtuse; border 

 narrow; median line deeply impressed; anterior line well marked; 

 lateral basal impressions hardly marked. Elytra hardly wider 

 than prothorax (4 "5 x 2 mm.), widest behind middle, subparallel 

 on sides, very lightly rounded, a little narrowed to shoulders; 

 disc subdepressed; sides and apex strongly and deeply declivous; 

 base truncate; shoulders marked; strise deep, except towards apex, 

 sti'ongly crenulate-punctate, seventh entire; interstices subde- 

 pressed, hardly convex, eighth convex, narrow (hardly carinate) 

 on apical curve, greatly narrowed about basal fifth, shortly and 

 feebly carinate at humeral angle; lateral channel shallow; posterior 

 puncture of third interstice placed at extremity of third and 

 fourth strise. Prosternum protuberant; episterna shagreened, 

 obsoletely transversely striolate, overhanging anteriorly. Anterior 

 trochanters projecting strongly and obtusely at apex; femora wide, 

 compressed, posterior edge of lower side rounded; tibise wide, 

 palmate; external spur of intermediate tibiee long, acute. 



Length 8, breadth 2 mm. 



Hah. : West Australia - Beverley (sent to me by Mr. A M. 

 Lea). 



