144 ox THE AUSTRALIAN CLIVINILES, 



Genus Clivixa.* 

 ScoJyptus, Vwiieja (in part) : Ceratoglossa, Macleay 



The following features of universal application in the genus 

 CHvina are extracted fi-om Dr. Horn's definition of the tribe 



Scarilini.^ 



Eyes not distant from mouth. Head with two supra-orbital 

 setaj Ligula small and prolonged, bisetose at tip, paraglossas 

 slender. Palpi with penultimate joint bisetose in front. % Thorax 

 with two lateral punctures. Body pedunculate, scutellum not 

 visible between elytra Sides of elytra narrowly inflexed, margin 

 entire. Metasternal epimera distinct. Posterior coxse contiguous. 

 Legs stout, the anterior femora especially stout. 



To the unive^^sal characters given above I would add for the 

 Australian species the following : — 



Labrum usualh' truncate ( sometimes the middle lightly advanced), 

 gently declivous to anterior margin; five ; rarel}'^) or seven (nor- 

 mally) setigerous punctures above anterior declivity — the lateral 

 puncture on each side larger than the others and the seta rising 

 from it longer than the other seta3 and erect (in species with only 

 five settc the one next to the lateral is wanting'; anterior angles 

 rounded, ciliate. Mentum emarginate with a wide median tooth. 

 Clypeus with a seta on each side. Vertex with a ridge on each 

 side above supra-orbital punctures (facial carina — " carene 



* Latreille, Consid. Geii. sur les Cr. et les Ins. 



+ Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i.v. ISSl, pp. 119, 120. 



X The following are Dr. Horn's words in reference to tbe palps of the 

 ■Scaritini : — "Palpi muderate, terminal joint variable in form, shorter 

 than penultimate (Scarites) equal or longer (Clivince), the penultimate 

 bisetose in hont (GlU'huM ) plurisetose (Scaritefi).'" It is evident he only 

 refers to the labial palps, but for all that the differences sought to be 

 established cannot be maintained, for in his "group" Clivinoi some Aus- 

 tralian species (e.g., C. planiceps, Putz. ) have the penultimate joint of the 

 labial palps evidently longer than the terminal, and in Carenum too the 

 relative proportions of these joints varies. 



