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Chandler — Tyrini from Australia 
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Females with flagellomeres VII-IX wider and shorter, VII no 
more than three times as long as wide, VIII only twice as long as 
wide; abdomen broadly rounded at apex, tergite V slightly tumid 
medially; knobs of protrochanters and profemora as in males. 
Measurements of holotype: Flagellomere VII 0.7 wide, 0.29 long, 
VIII 0.08 wide, 0.27 long, IX 0.11 wide, 0.31 long; knobs of right 
profemur 0.08 and 0.24 from base. 
Specimens examined, 5: Holotype male, Victoria, Australian 
Alps, 1-1943, C. Oke and M. T. Higgenbotham (MVMA). Para- 
types: 1 male, Australian Alps, V, C. Oke (MVMA); 1 male, 
Balook, IV-26-1943, C. Oke (DSC); 1 male, 1 female, no locality 
data (MVMA). Known only from Victoria. 
Etymology: The generic name is derived from that of the principal 
collector of the type series, Charles Oke, and the specific name from 
the state in which the specimens have been collected. 
Acknowledgments 
I would like to thank the following individuals for the loan of 
specimens in their care, and the abbreviation for the collections in 
which specimens are placed follows their affiliation: John F. Law- 
rence, C.S.I.R.O, Canberra, Australia (ANIC); A. Neboiss, Na- 
tional Museum of Victoria, Abbotsford, Australia (MVMA); S. 
Endrody-Younga, Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa 
(TMSA); A. F. Newton, Field Museum of Natural History, Chi- 
cago, arranged the loan of material from that institution (FMNH) 
and from his private collection (AFN); E. G. Matthews, South Aus- 
tralian Museum, Adelaide, Australia (SAMA), assisted by the loan 
of the holotype and part of the type-series of Tyromorphus aurico- 
mus Lea. Some material is retained in the collection of the author 
(DSC). J. C. Watt and R. C. Craw, D.S.I.R., Auckland, New Zea- 
land, helped greatly by the loan of specimens of Tyrogetus palpalis 
Broun and other representatives of the New Zealand Tyrini. J. F. 
Burger and R. M. Reeves, University of New Hampshire, kindly 
read the manuscript. 
Summary 
The New Zealand tyrine genus Tyrogetus Broun is now recorded 
from Tasmania with the description of three new species; occidenta- 
ls n. sp., howardi n. sp., minimus n. sp. Two new genera of Tyrini 
