Notes on Amy derides. 19 



Typus : Cure, mirabilis, Kirby, in Linn. Trans. — Species unica 

 (6 nova Hollandia, magna, facie aliena, rostri forma insolita et 

 valde singulari. 



This absolutely fixes the name Amy c terns to the species 

 described by Kirby, and is not affected by the fact that Gyllenhal, 

 in 1834, in re-describing, from the Schonherr collection, 

 Aniyeterus mirabilis, described the gular-horned species previ- 

 ously described by Fischer (1823) as Phalidura mirabilis 

 (=F. reticulata, Boisd.). 



If, therefore, group 7 is to be separated generically from 

 Phalidura, the name Amycterus, which I have, in an earlier 

 paper, placed as a synonym of Phalidura, must be revived and 

 used in preference to A phalidura. Sharp. 



I have gone into this question at some length, as the change 

 of names will affect most of the Victorian species now called 

 Fsalidura. 



Pro phalidura. The type species is Talaurinus riverinae, 

 MacL, and a second species, P. truncata, is described. This 

 I have not been able to identify. The limits of the genus are 

 somewhat uncertain, but, as characterised, would probably 

 ^exclude many species such as tomentosus, howitti, maculipennis, 

 •etc., which show a decided resemblance to riverinae. One 

 species, — T. granulatus, Ferg. — should, 1 think, be referred to 

 Pro phalidura. 



Eustatius fergusoni. Sharp. Both genus and species are un- 

 known to me; it is probably a good genus, but the distinction 

 as regards the short forceps is hardly sufficient to separate it 

 from Phalidura, as equally short forceps occur in several species 

 ■of that genus. 



Boisduvalian Types of Amycterides. 



In a previous paper (Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, 1911, 

 ;xxxvi., p. 141), I re-described such of Boisduval's types of 

 Amycterides as were in the Dejean* collection, now in the Brus- 

 sels Museum. A few types described from other collections 

 were not seen, and while in Paris I endeavoured lo trace the 

 whereabouts of these, and in particular of those belonging to 

 the collection Dupont. In the Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle at Paris I examined the types of Talaurinus tomen- 

 tosus, Boisd., and Euomus scorpio, Boisd., both of which are 

 •correctly identified in Australian collections. 



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