BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 193 



The following is a translation of Putzeys' remarks on this 

 species, which is unknown to me : — 



The vertex is punctate; it bears a lightly impressed oblong 

 wide fovea, where the punctures are denser. The antennse are 

 thick, moniiiform. The eyes are prominent, but greatly enclosed 

 by the postooular tubercles. The prothorax is longer than broad, 

 narrowed in front, but particularly behind the anterior angles; 

 these are lightly advanced; the posterior angles are distinct; the 

 lightly convex surface bears some striolie and some small scattered 

 punctures. 



The elytra are cylindrical; their base is truncate, but the 

 shoulders are a little rounded; under a strong lens it is seen that 

 the interstices are covered with small transverse undulations not 

 close together. The elytra are piceous, with all their margins 

 (including the suture^ of a rather clear brown. 



The femora are narrow. The anterior tibia?, sulcate on upper 

 side, have externally two very strong teeth. The apical digitation 

 is thickei', and one-half longer than the inner apical spine. 



Hah. : Probably the north-west of Australia (Coll. Castelnau; 

 a single specimen only). 



Clivixa australica, n.sp. 



Narrow, parallel, subcylindrical. Head short, convex; eyes 

 large, convex, not prominent; facial sulci lightly recurved: pro- 

 thorax parallel, longer than broad: elytra long, parallel; fourth 

 stria joining fifth at base; eighth interstice distinct on apical 

 curve; submarginal humeral carina moderate, narrow; prosternum 

 with intercoxal part attenuate anteriorly; episterna very finely 

 striolate near lateral margins, overhanging anteriorly; anterior 

 tibise 4-dentate. Ferruginous. 



Head sparsely covered with minute, nearly obsolete punctures: 

 clj'^peus with median pax't wide, truncate (obsoletely emarginate 

 between angles), angles obtuse, hardly prominent; wings small, 

 hardly divided from but not so pi'ominent as angles of median part, 

 ■outer angles obtuse, external side straight; supra-antennal plates 

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