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prosternal process narrow but not “attenuate” between 
anterior parts of coxae; body below locally rugulose but 
not punctate. Anterior femora with lower posterior margin 
slightly convex; anterior tibiae strongly 3-dentate; middle 
tibia with a strong spur about from apex externally. 
Length 7. 8-9.0; width 2. 2-2. 5 mm. 
Holotype (M. C. Z. Type No. 23,094) and 4 paratypes all 
from Geraldton, Western Australia, October, 1931. Also 
1 specimen, not a type, measuring only 6.5 by 1.8 mm., 
from Meekatharra, Western Australia (nearly 300 miles 
inland from Geraldton), Sept. 25, 1931. 
The form of the clypeal margin and the distinct joining of 
the 4th and 5th elytral striae at base put this new species 
in Sloane’s Australasiae Group. In Sloane’s second key 
(1904, p. 719) it actually runs to australasiae and the 
latter’s close relatives lepida Putz. and dingo SI., but the 
new species (scidpticeps) differs from all of them by the 
conspicuous and rather complex sculpture of the head. The 
brown rather than black coloration is probably also a 
distinguishing character of scidpticeps, but a relatively 
unimportant one. 
References 
Darlington, P. J. Jr. 
1936. Variation and atrophy of flying wings of some carabid beetles. 
Ann. Ent. Soc. America, 29:136-176, pis. i-iii. 
Sloane, T. G. 
1896. On the Australian Clivinides. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 
Wales, 21:143-257, 275-280. 
1904. Revisional notes Clivinini. Ibid., 29:710-733. 
1905. [Check-list of Clivina.l Ibid., 30 Suppl.: 4-8. 
1907. [New ClivinaJ Ibid., 32:346-350. 
1916. [New Clivina.l Ibid., 41:600-607. 
1917. [New Clivina.'] Ibid., 42:406. 
1920. [Tasmanian Clivina.l Ibid., 45:122-123. 
1923. [New ClivinaJ Ibid., 48:18-19. 
