88 REVISION OP THK AMYCTBRIDER, ii., 



Sloane (Trans. Roy. Soc. Soiith Aust., xvi., pp.215-225), in de- 

 scribing the Amycterini of the ^Ider Exploring Expedition, pro- 

 posed nine new species. Of these, I know T. regularis, T. solidus, 

 T. Helmsi, T. cequalis, and T. convexus; the latter species, how- 

 ever, was later on referred by Blackburn to Sclerorrhinus. T. 

 crassiceps, 2\ ohscurus, T. noctis and 7\ insignis I have never 

 seen, but, from the descriptions, they should be very distinct from 

 any others of the genus, and probably will not always remain in 

 Talaurinus. The Amycterid fauna of the Central Australian 

 Region is, as yet, little known, such species as have been de- 

 scribed having, as a rule, no great affinity to the species found in 

 the Eastern States; but, until more is known about the species 

 peculiar to this region, it seems useless and mischievous to pro- 

 pose genera on isolated specimens, and better at present to rele- 

 gate them to the old-established genera. 



Blackburn (Report Horn Exped. Central Australia, ii., 1896) 

 described three species — T. ituequalis, T. rufipes and T. imitator. 

 T. incequalis I have not seen, but I have specimens of 7'. rujipes 

 and T. imitator, and to them also would apply the above remarks. 

 I have endeavoured to work them and Sloane's species into my 

 Table, but the places assigned to them must be regarded as only 

 tentative. 



T. rujipes, in some respects, shows an approach to Psalidura, 

 or to the 7'. i?M'erinoe-group, in that the apices of the forceps 

 appear at the sides of the anal segment, though the latter is not 

 greatly excavate; the basal ends of the forceps, however, appear 

 on dissection, as far as such could be performed, to be separated 

 by a median vertical plate, as in Psalidura. 2. imitator differs 

 rather widely from the typical Talaurini in the structure of the 

 rostrum. 



T. stramjulatus Blackb., (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust., xix., 

 1895). appears to be a very distinct species; it is unknown to me. 



Lea has recently described, in various journals, six new species 

 of l^alaurinus — T. cavirostris, T. m,aculipennis, T. M-elevattis, T. 

 melancholicus, T. simplicipes in the Mem. Soc. Ent Belgique, xvii., 

 1910; and T. orthodoxus in the Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1910. 



