BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 221 



but specimens sent me from Swan Hill by Mr. C. French have 

 the four posterior legs testaceous. The black species allied to 

 C. lepida require careful study with large series of freshly 

 collected specimens from many different localities. 



Clivina lepida, Putzeys. 



Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1866, xxvii. p. 38; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1866, 

 X. p. 184. 



Narrow, parallel. Head small, smooth; prothorax convex, not 

 broader than long, decidedly narrowed anteriorly (ant. width 1-7 

 mm.); elytra parallel on sides, punctate-striate, fourth stria out- 

 turned and joining fifth at base. Prosternum with intercoxal 

 part wide anteriorly, sulcate on base; anterior tibia3 3-dentate; ^ 

 with teeth of the anterior tibiae much weaker than in ^, and 

 with the iimer apical spine stout, curved and obtuse at apex. 

 Black, shining; four posterior legs testaceous red, anterior legs 

 piceous. 



Head narrow, obliquely angustate, with hardly any trace of a 

 lateral sinuosity on each side behind wings of clypeus, convex and 

 smooth between facial impressions; clypeus not divided from front, 

 anterior margin roundly emarginate, wings small, not divided from 

 median part. Prothorax rather longer than broad (2-2 x 2-15 mm.), 

 sides lightly rounded, not sinuate behind anterior angles; anterior 

 margin lightly emarginate behind neck; anterior angles obtusely 

 rounded; median and anterior lines well marked; lateral basal 

 impressions distinct, linear. Elytra very little wider than pro- 

 thorax (4-5 mm. x 2-3 mm.), lightly convex; sides parallel, not 

 perceptibly narrowed to shoulders; base truncate; shoulders 

 rounded; apical declivity lightly declivous; striae more strongly? 

 marked and punctate. on disc than towards apex; interstices 

 convex towards base, depressed towards apex, seventh shortly 

 carinate at base, eightly finely carinate near apex; lateral border 

 narrow, hardly perceptibly wider posteriorly. Prosternum with 

 pectoral ridges strongly developed; episterna finely rugulose and 



