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REVT8TON OF THE AMYCTERTDES. 



P;ii-t iii. XofonnpJiPs^ Macramycterus, and ^^-cnei-a allied to 

 Talmiriiuis. 



By Eustace W. Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M. 



(Continued from Vol . xxxviii., p.39Jf.) 



(Plate xiv.) 



Tn the present part of my revision of the subfamily, I have 

 brought together a number of the smaller genera, partly for con- 

 venience, partly because they are mostly related to Tnhuirinus: 

 Xotonophes, Pseudonoi onoph es and Mijotrotus, which show a de- 

 cided affinity to Talaurinus; Macramycterus, which should per- 

 haps be considered as forming a distinct group in the subfamily 

 allied both to the Talaurinus and to the AcaniliolophuH groups of 

 genera; and Chriof//phus, which, notwithstanding the long scape, 

 is very doubtfully associated with the long-scaped genera, its affini- 

 ties appearing to ))e rather to the '^Euomides" and to Ahxirhea 

 in ]iarticular. 



With the exception of Myolrotus, a Central Queensland genus, 

 all the genera described in the present paper are inhabitants of 

 West or North-west Australia, in the case of Notonoplies, the 

 habitat extending along the north of Australia to the extreme 

 north-east of Queensland. 



*In the first part of this Revision, I indicated that there was some 

 doubt as to tlie correct assignment of the name uAmycttrus. As will be 

 seen later, this name must sink as a synon}^! of Psalidura, and, according 

 to the present rules of nomenclature, the name of the sul)family, Amyc- 

 teridcs, should be altered to Pmlidurides. As the name Amyderidf.s has 

 been in use for these insects for so long a time, 1 do not at present suggest 

 this alteration as advisable. 



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