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Psyche 
[March 
Blackburn originally found this species in several places in swampy 
ground near Port Lincoln, South Australia. I collected it along the 
lower Murray River between Murray Bridge and Meningie, South 
Australia; in southern Victoria (between Portland and Port Fairy; 
near the lower Gellibrand River; and near Winchelsea) ; and in 
southern New South Wales (Bodalla, in flood debris). Sloane (1920) 
records it from several localities in Tasmania. 
Blackburn described the species as piceous, the elytra with a large 
obscure reddish mark on disc a little behind middle. Most of my 
specimens answer this description, except that the ground color is 
dark reddish rather than piceous. In some specimens the elytra have 
Figs. 1-2. Tachys. 1, T. bogani new species; 2, T. trunci new species. 
an actual pale area as described. In others, careful examination shows 
that the elytra are almost uniformly colored but translucent, and in 
these specimens the paler areas are not spots on the elytra but the pale 
tips of the inner wings seen through the elytra. The wings of this 
