210 ON THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVINIDES, 



strongly 3-dentate. Black; elytra with apical third testaceous 

 red, under surface piceous; anterior legs piceous brown, four pos- 

 terior legs testaceous. 



Head wide l)efore eyes (1'2 mm. x 1-2 mm.), vertex with a few 

 shallow rug8e,not punctate except finely on each side near extremity 

 of facial carinas: clypeus not divided from front, lightly and widely 

 emarginate, anterior angles (wings') widely rounded; median part 

 depressed, bordered, defined on each side by a short, narrow,, 

 longitudinal ridge; wings small, concave; clypeal elevation dis- 

 tinct, arcuate; supra-antennal plates rather depressed, large, wide, 

 strongly rounded and bordered externally, projecting sharply 

 and decidedly beyond wings of clypeus; facial sulci lightly 

 impressed, facial carina? short, wide; eyes convex, projecting 

 slightly, deeply enclosed by supra-antennal plates in front, 

 lightly enclosed behind; orbits abruptly constricted behind. 

 Prothorax smooth (a few transverse striol?e on disc), as long 

 as broad (1"8 mm. x 1'8 mm.), widest a little before posterior 

 angles, decidedly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 1 -5 mm.)^ basal 

 curve short; border rather wide on anterior part of sides, median 

 and anterior lines well marked; lateral basal impressions short, 

 distinct. Elytra convex, very declivous on sides, widest a little 

 behind middle (4 x 2-1 mm.), a little narrowed to base; sides 

 lightly rounded; base shortly truncate in middle, rounded on 

 each side; humeral angles not marked; striae deeply impressed 

 on basal two-thirds, becoming faint towards apex, closely punctate; 

 the punctures strong towards base, weaker towards apex. Pi-o- 

 sternum with intercoxal part narrow (not attenuate) anteriorly, 

 transversely sulcate on base; episterna finely rugulose and trans- 

 versely striolate. 



Length 7-7 '5, breadth 2-1 mm. 



Hab. : Queensland— Pine Mountain (Masters); N.S. Wales — 

 Clarence River (Lea); Central Australia (Horn Scientific 

 . Expedition). 



The colour of the elytra, with the whole apical part testaceous 

 red from just behind the third puncture of the third interstice, 



