AUSTRALIAN CARABID BEETLES I. 
SOME CLIVINA FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA^ 
By P. J. Darlington Jr. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 
This is the first of what I hope will be a long series of 
papers on Australian Carabidae. The papers will be based 
chiefly on the collection of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology. The Museum possesses much material secured in 
Australia, especially in eastern and southwestern districts, 
by myself and other members of the Harvard Australian 
Expedition of 1931-1932; some collected by myself in South 
Queensland in October and November 1943, while I was 
staging with the 26th Malaria Survey Unit of the Army of 
the United States; and sets of duplicates from the South 
Australian Museum, the National Museum at Melbourne, 
and from several private collectors; and recently we have 
received additional interesting specimens from many local- 
ities in Australia collected in 1950-1951 by Dr. W. L. Brown, 
now Assistant Curator of Insects at the M. C. Z. I plan to 
work up appropriate portions of this material in connection 
with study of large collections of New Guinean Carabidae 
secured during the war. The present paper concerns certain 
interesting Western Australian species of the nearly cos- 
mopolitan genus Clivina. 
My intention in this series of papers is, so far as possible, 
to describe only those new species which are well defined and 
of which we have more than one specimen, and to return at 
least one of the type series of each new form to Australia. 
I am particularly anxious that a good set of specimens be 
deposited at Canberra, with the collection of the late Thomas 
G. Sloane, who did so much fine work on Australian 
Carabidae. 
The papers of this series are to be regarded as prelim- 
inary to more extensive work which I plan to do on Aus- 
^ Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
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