BY THOMAS G. SLOANB. 145 



oculaire " of Putzeys); a sulcus on inner side of each of the facial 

 carinie (facial sulcus). Throat and temples normally rugulose; 

 gular sutures wide apart; a short oblique ridge (gular cicatrix) 

 extending inwards on each side of base of neck and dividing the 

 gular and temporal regions. Prothorax and disc canaliculate, and 

 normally with a transverse arcuate impression (anterior liuej near 

 anterior margin; a deep channel along each lateral margin, its 

 course terminated before the posterior marginal puncture by a 

 slight upward curve of the border at posterior angle. Body 

 winged Peduncle with a concavity on each side (normally 

 punctate) to receive intermediate femora. Elytra normally with 

 seven punctate striae and a lateral channel; third interstice with 

 four foveiform punctures along course of third stria. Prosternum 

 strongly bordered on anterior margin; the episterna normally 

 overhanging on sides anteriorly — (the antennae pass under the 

 overhanging part of the sides when in repose). Metasternal 

 episterna — with epimera — normally elongate and narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, rarely short. Ventral segments transversely sulcate. 

 Intermediate tibiae with an acute spur on external side above 

 apex, rarely at apex. 



The features given above are normally present in Australian 

 species of Clivina, therefore little, and often no use has been made 

 of them in the descriptions which follow; but in all cases where 

 any variation from the normal form has been observed it has been 

 noted (except in the case of differences of the gular and temporal 

 regions of the head, the gular sutures, the gular cicatrix and the 

 anterior margin of the labrum}, and where no allusion is made to 

 any of the characters enumerated above in iny descriptions of 

 specimens before me, it is to be assumed that the form is normal. 



The following characters seem to call for special notice, the 

 more so because I have been compelled for the sake of descriptive 

 exactness to adopt a new terminology for some features not 

 hitherto used in diagnosing species of Clivina, and to vary some 

 of the terms used by M. Putzeys for certain features. 



The head is longitudinally impressed on each side, the anterior 

 part of each of these impressions usually forming a wide and 

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