BY THOMAS G, SLOANE. 189 



Clivina axgustula, Putzeys. 



Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1866, xxvii. p. 42; Ami. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1866, 

 X. p. 190. 



Narrow, parallel, subcylindrical. Black, head and prothorax 

 piceous black; elytra with suture and margins (excepting base) 

 reddish; legs reddish, four posterior paler than anterior. Head 

 wide, short before eyes, front and vertex punctate : clyj^eus 

 divided from front by a wide shallow punctate depression; clypeal 

 elevation prominent, widely rounded; a wide depressed space near 

 anterior margin; median part emarginate-truncate, the angles 

 lightly advanced beyond wings, obtuse; wings square, with 

 external angles rounded, supra-antennal plates wide, rounded 

 externally, projecting decidedly be)7ond clypeal wings; eyes 

 prominent; facial sulci hardly impressed, facial carinse narrow, 

 well developed. Prothorax about as long as broad (1 -3 x 1-2 mm.) 

 a little narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 1-1 mm.), convex, punctate; 

 sides lightly and widely sinuate behind anterior marginal puncture. 

 Elytra parallel (2*7 x 1-3 mm.), convex, punctate-striate; strife 

 entire; eighth interstice carinate at base and on apical curve. 

 Prosternum with intercoxal part attenuate anteriorly; episterna 

 rugulose and striolate. Anterior tibiae -l-dentate. 



Length 4-2-5-2, breadth 1-1 '4 mm. 



Hah. : N.S. Wales — Clarence River, Windsor (Lea), Carrathool 

 (Sloane); Victoria — Lillydale, Ferntree Gully (Sloane); South 

 Australia (Blackburn). 



The description given above is founded on specimens taken at 

 Lillydale and Ferntree Gully, near Melbourne. Putzeys' descrip- 

 tion suggests the inference that the prothorax is not narrowed 

 anteriorly, but in my. specimens, which I have no doubt are 

 C. angiistula, Putz., the prothorax certainly is narrowed ; 

 different specimens vary in degree in this respect, which I believe 

 to be a sexual difference. 



