204 ox THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVISIDES, 



apex is rounded; they are strongly punctate-striate. The 

 scutellar stride is oblique and short. The suture is occupied by a 

 stripe of brown-black which, at the base, covers the first interstice, 

 and becomes wider after the basal fourth without extending 

 beyond the third interstice. 



ffab. : Australia — Port Phillip; (one specimen). 



In his " Revision Generale " the following is all that is said of 

 this species : — 



In a great many respects it comes very near C. verlicaHs; the 

 prothorax has the same foi'm, but it is less convex, longer and 

 still more enlarged behind the anterior angles; it is covered with 

 a vefy distinct puncturation.' The epistoma has the external 

 angle of its wings more marked, simpl}' obtuse, and the wings 

 are not separated from the posterior wings. The anterior 

 elevation is less marked, the vertex has only some scattered 

 punctures anteriorly. All the external teeth of the tibife are 

 obliterated, which may well be only accidental. 



Length 5, El. 2|, breadth 1| mm. 



In spite of M, Putzeys' having placed C. snturaUs in a section 

 in which the fourth stria joined the fifth at the base,* I cannot 

 help a suspicion that it did not do so, and that G. suturalis was 

 founded on the same species that Mr. Blackburn has since named 

 C. dorsalis.-f The difference in the dimensions given in Putzeys' 

 two descriptions, apparentl}^ founded on the same specimen, and 

 the absence of any comment thereon are unsatisfactory. 



Clivina verticalis, Putzeys. 



Stett, Ent. Zeit. 1866, xxvii. p. 40; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1866, 

 x. p. 186. 



The following is a translation of M. Putzeys' whole descri^ition:— 

 It differs from the preceding [C. sellata] by its wholly testa- 

 ceous colour, a little darker on the head and prothorax, the suture 



* He placed C. planiceps in the same section, ckle dtile, p. 173. 

 t Vide description of C. dorsalis, ante, p. 109. 



