162 R. W. CROSSKEY 



Institut, Eberswalde) . Paralectotypes: 2 <$, 2 $, same data as lectotype (rj & $ 

 in DEI, Eberswalde, and $ & $ in MNHU, Berlin). 



Each type-specimen has a printed label 'Herberton Dodd XII.1910 3700 Ft.' and 

 Enderlein's name label. The generic name is mis-spelt 'Microtopeza' on each name 

 label as well as in the original publication. 



Palpostoma aldrichi Hardy, 1938 : 57 (= testacea sensu Aldrich). 



Aldrich (1922) described a species of Palpostoma that he considered to be 

 P. testaceum Robineau-Desvoidy from a female and five male specimens from 

 Cairns in northern Queensland. Hardy (1938) considered that Aldrich's species 

 could not be the true P. testaceum, as Robineau-Desvoidy would not have had the 

 same species. This supposition of Hardy is the merest conjecture, unsupported 

 by any real evidence (as Robineau-Desvoidy's original material of testaceum is 

 lost and it is still not known, in the unsatisfactory taxonomic state of Palpostoma, 

 whether the same species may occur in north Queensland as are found in New 

 South Wales - the most probable provenance of Robineau-Desvoidy's material) ; 

 nevertheless, Hardy's name P. aldrichi that he published for Aldrich's supposedly 

 misidentified testaceum is available in nomenclature. The name is not accompanied 

 by any description, but the reference is given to Aldrich's (1922) description under 

 the name testacea [sic] and the name aldrichi is therefore available under Article 13 

 (a) (ii) of the ICZN. 



The type-material of aldrichi is comprised of the six specimens cited by Aldrich. 

 Aldrich stated that three of these (J) had been returned to the collector (Illingworth), 

 and the others (two <$, one $) retained for the USNM collection. The specimens 

 returned to Australia have not been located (though possibly still present in a 

 collection in Brisbane) but the others are in Washington, and a lectotype is here 

 designated from them. 



LECTOTYPE <$, Australia: Queensland, Cairns, 1919 (/. F. Illingworth) (in 

 United States National Museum, Washington D.C.). Paralectotype $, same data 

 as lectotype (label lacking collector's name) (USNM) ; paralectotype $, Queensland, 

 Babinda, 1919 (/. F. Illingworth) (USNM). 



The lectotype is labelled 'Cairns N. Q. 19' and 'J. F. Illingworth Coll. Ex. 

 Window' and bears Aldrich's identification label as 'testacea' . There are 

 discrepancies between the labelling of the paralectotypes and Aldrich's published 

 data, but it seems probable that Aldrich was citing data only from the specimen 

 that he retained and labelled (i.e. the lectotype) and that the two specimens here 

 treated as paralectotypes that he also retained (a <$ and a $) are part of the type-series 

 in spite of the discrepancies; the female is labelled as from Babinda (not Cairns) 

 and the male is labelled as collected by A. P. Dodd (not J. F. Illingworth). 



Senostoma ? punctum Walker, 1858 : 205. 



Described from 'Australia and New South Wales', from which statement it is 

 clear that there were at least two original syntypes. Two specimens are in 



