206 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVINIDES, 



indeed on account of its having the iiitercoxal pai't of the 

 prosternum very narrow, and from the fact that M. Putzeys in 

 his memoir in the Entomologische Zeitung placed 6'. melanopyga 

 in the same group as G. basalts, taking no notice of the basal 

 characters of the stripe of the elytra, I suspect that it is not 

 unlikely to have been founded on specimens of ('. melanopyga, 

 which, probably chiefly on account of their larger size, had been 

 taken to belong to a distinct species. 



Section II. 



^^ Table of Species. 



/. Unicolorous. 



g. Size large O. auMralaHUE, Boheni. 



f/;/. Size small C. qiicenslandica, SI. 



ff. Bicolorous. 



h. Black, with apex of elytra reddish C. leai, SI. 



hh. Elytra black, with a reddish vitta on each 



side C. vittata, SI. 



The species I do not know are C. juveuis, Putz., and C. }i,elinsi; 

 Blkb. 



Clivina AUSTRALASIA, Bohemann. 



Res. Eugen. Coleoptera, 1858, p. 8. 



Robust. Head wide, punctulate on each side at posterior 

 extremity of facial carinse; prothorax not longer than wide, 

 decidedly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width •2-15 mm.); elytra 

 strongly punctate-striate, fourth stria outturned and joining fifth 

 at base, interstices convex, eighth carinate at base and apex; 

 anterior tibise strongly 3-dentate (hardly 4-dentate); inner apical 

 spine (jj) not obtuse at apex. Black, .antennae, tibia? and tarsi 

 piceous! 



Head large, wide before eyes, obliquely angustate, with a well 

 marked sinuosity between supra-antennal plates and wings of 

 clypeus; front and vertex rather depressed: clypeus obsoletely 

 divided from front; anterior elevation arcuate; anterior margin 

 wide, lightly and roundly emarginate; wings wide, concave, 



