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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 with Descriptions of New Genera and 

 Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. 

 XXVI. 



[Read May 1, 1900.] 



CARABIDJE. 

 CLIVINA. 



C. eyrensis, sp. nov. Minus convexa; sat nitida ; brunneo- 

 testaceus; mandibulis brevibus ; clypeo ab " alis " distincto, 

 quam hae magis producto, antice fere truncato ad extremi- 

 tates angulato ; oculis sat (fere ut C. JBovillce, Blackb.) 

 convexis ; prothorace quam lon^iori paullo latiori, fortiter 

 anguste canaliculate*, antice leviter angustato, latera versus 

 trans versim leviter rugato vix punctulato, foveis posticis 

 fere nullis ; elytris sat aequaliter sat prof unde striatis, striis 

 parum manifeste punctulatis, stria quinta antice cum externis 

 conjuncta; tibiis anticis extus tridentatis. Long., 2-f 1/; 

 lat., T 9 ^ 1. 

 From the characters mentioned above it will be seen that this 

 species falls into the group called by Mr. Sloane (Proc. L.S., 

 N.S.W., 1896, p. 151) the " obliqaata group." Of the species 

 included in that group and known to Mr. Sloane only one species 

 (C. Hiverince) agrees with the present one in being of sub- 

 depressed form, and with its prothorax wider than long ; from 

 which the present insect differs notably by inter alia the fifth and 

 sixth elytral striae deeply impressed throughout their whole 

 length (and not, or scarcely, less strongly impressed than the 

 other strise), by the almost complete absence of elongate fovese 

 near the base of the pronotum, and by its more convex eyes. 

 From the species of the obliquata group not known to Mr. 

 Sloane (of all of which the types are in my collection) C. eyrensis 

 differs by its much more convex eyes. 



S. Australia; near Lyndhurst (Lake Eyre basin), taken by 

 Herr Koch. 



C. Adelaides, Blackb. I take this opportunity of mentioning 

 that this insect appears to me to be the species that Mr. Sloane 

 identifies with G. obliquata, Putz. Mr. Sloane (I.e.) gives his 

 reasons for thinking that obliquata is founded on an insect not 



