RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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only definite localities he gives are a few in Eastern Australia. I am 
unable to find any records of its occurrence in Western Australia, 
though since it lives in the deserts of Central Australia, and at Port 
Essington it possibly extends into the central and northern parts of 
the Western State. As already stated it is not represented in a 
series of more than one hundred specimens from several widely 
separated localities in South-western Australia, its place being 
apparently taken by Cheraps preissii which resembles it both in 
appearance and in habits. 
