64 RECORDS OK THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Obs. — Jiepreseuted bv a single sijecimen iu tlie cullt'ctioii. It differs 

 from E. vidpecula, Wied., in the above details which do not appear to be 

 sufficient to raise it to specific rank. It is abundantly distinct from E. 

 australis, Ricardo. 



Hah. — Norton's Basin, Nepean River, New South "Wales. ((.'ulU'ctor. — 

 A. Musgrave). 



Sub-family TAJiANlN^. 

 Group vii. Abdomen with one or more stri|)es, usually contiiuiuus. 

 TaI!ANUS UAiaiCAl.LOSUS, Iticardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xvi. (1914), p. 394. 



Hiib. — Grayndah, Queensland. (Collector. — G. Masters). 



Group viii. Species with median or lateral spots, or both, on 

 abdomen, not usually forming a continuous stripe. 



Tahaxus spoliatus, Waller. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, iv. (1860), p. 108; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(8), XV. (1915), p. 275. 



0//.S-. — The collection contains a single $ specimen determined as this 

 species by Miss Ricardo from Victoria (no definite locality being given). 

 It seems remarkable that a species described from Macassar, and the 

 Celebes, being unknown from Northern Austi-alia where its presence 

 might be expected, should be found in Victoria. 



ILah. — Victoria. 



Tai;anus viCioi;iENsis, JilcarJo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xv. (1915), p. 275. 



Obs. — The collection contains two specimens, one of which, determined 

 by Miss Ricardo, is in rather a poor state of preservation, the thorax and 

 abdomen being abraded. The second specimen is clearly this species and 

 is in a good state of ])i-eservation 



JJah. — Moonbar, (Collector — R. Helms); Jilackheatli, New South 

 Wales. (C'olli'ctoi' and donor. — .\. Musgrave). 



Group i.\. Species witli pah'r bauds, and soiueiiuies spots on 

 abdomen. 



'rAi;AXU> .\ium;i;a\ II, sji. nor. 



$. liuugtli, 11; width ol bead, 4 : width ol' front of vertex, 0.25 ; 

 length of wing, 11 njui. 



A small compact black species. Antenna" dark ri'ddish-bi'owii, apices 

 black. I'alpi rt'ddish-yelhiw. Thoi'ax black. .Vbdouicu l)lark with grey 

 bamls. Legs blackish. 



lliKtl. — Face, cheeks and siib-calliis gii'v-black ; beard grey, seanty ; 

 front black, uniform in width, pul)escence black, short anil scanty : frontal 

 callus sliiiiing black, tumid, pear-shaped, reaching the eyes, with a lineal 

 extension, about as long as the plug, not i-eacliing the vei-tex ; eyes dull 

 black, with copper-coloi-ed patches in some liglits ; antenntc dark reddish- 



