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marked, obtuse; anterior margin lightly emarginate; lateral basal 

 impressions shallow, linear (sometimes obsolete). Elytra oval 

 (4 X 2'1 mm), convex, widest behind middle; sides I'ounded, decidedly 

 narrowed to base; shoulders not marked; base rounded; stride 

 narrow, deep on disc, lighter towards apex; their puncturation 

 fine, dense; interstices narrow, convex towards base, eighth finely 

 carinate near apex, a short distinct submarginal carina at shoulder. 

 Prosternutn with intercoxal part wide anteriorly, sulcate on base; 

 pectoral ridges well developed. 



Length 6-5-8, breadth 1 •8-2-2 mm. 



Hab. .- N.S. Wales— Sydney District (Sloane, Lea). 



Very closely allied to C. lepicia, Putz., but evidently a distinct 

 species. The marked character distinguishing them is the shape 

 of the elytra. In C. sydneyensis the elytra are more convex^ 

 more deeply and abruptly declivous on base, sides, and apex, the 

 sides are greatly rounded and strongly narrowed to the base, the 

 interstices are narrower and more convex, the fourth being much 

 narrower at the base, the lateral border is wider on the sides, 

 except near the shoulders. From C. dUiiti2Jes, Putz., which it 

 resembles, it may be distinguished by the more rounded sides of 

 the elytra, and by the presence of a sulcus on the base of the 

 prosternum. From C. vagans, Putz., it is separated by the 

 stronger strias and more convex interstices of the elytra, &c. It 

 appears to l)e one of the commonest species of Clivina in the 

 neighl^ourhood of Sydney. 



Clivixa rubripes, Putzeys. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1868, xi. p. 13. 



The following is a translation of Putzeys' entire note (it cannot 

 be called a description) on this species : — 



A little smaller than C. lepida. Very distinct by its legs 

 entirely of a red testaceous colour; its prothorax -wader, flatter, 

 shorter, nearly quite square, scarcely a little narrowed to the 

 anterior angles, which are a little more rounded; its elytra longer, 

 and its shoulders more marked. 



Length 8, El. 4^, breadth 1| mm. 



Hab. : Rjekhampton (Coll. Castelnau). 



