234 Eustace W. Ferguson: 



Queensland to South Australia. The range of F. flavosetosa ex- 

 tends from Fowler's Bay in South Australia to the Mallee country 

 in north-west Victoria (Ouyen, Sea Lake). 



The bulk of the Victorian species of Psalidura belong to the 

 mirahiinda group, a group which is typically Victorian though 

 overlapping into surrounding States. F. mirahunda is almost cer- 

 tainly the original Curculio mirabilis of Kirby, and that name 

 should take precedence; the names impressa, cremdala, Howitti 

 and Helyi have already been relegated to synonymy. Tasmania 

 ia embraced in the range of the species, and it appears to be com- 

 mon along the southern portions of Victoria; I have records of th© 

 following Victorian localities : — Thorpdale, Flinders, Ferntree 

 Gully, Mordialloc, Melbourne and Wallan. Most of the specimens 

 I have seen Avex'e labelled merely Tasmania or Victoria. Of its 

 western limit I am uncertain. I have never received it from Port- 

 land. Vjut there is a specimen in the National Museum labelled 

 South Australia. 



P. monticola Avas described from specimens taken by Mr. T. G. 

 Sloane at Mt. Buffalo, I have recently received a specimen from 

 Mr. J. E. Dixon from Tallangatta, while specimens in the National 

 Museum are from the Victorian Alps. The range of the species 

 therefore includes the north-eastern mountains, but its limits are 

 at pi-esent unknoAvn. 



P. cultratfv was described from material originally in the 

 Castlenau collection. I have a note that one specimen was labelled 

 Melbourne, but it is strange that T have never seen specimens from 

 another source. 



/*. Helmsi Avas described from Benalla (R. Helms). 



P. flavovarin occurs at Portland and in South Australia, the 

 specimens from the latter State, that I have seen, were without 

 locality labels. A variety of this species occurs at Mt. Macedon. 



Tlio locality of F. Leal (herein described) is unknown. 



TaI;Aitrinus. — The distribution of this genus has not yet been 

 satisfactorily worked out; probably because the genus, as at present 

 constiuted, is extremely complex and requires subdivision. In the 

 main, however, the tuberculate and costate sections, which com- 

 prise the typical species, correspond in their distribution to 

 Psalidura: with, in the case of the tuberculate forms, a secondary 

 200centre in South-west Australia. The distribution of the granu- 

 late forms is much more puzzling; almost absent in N.S. Wales, 

 wliero tlio tulierculate and costate forms are most abundant, they 

 are common in Victoria. South Australia, to a less extent in 



