Nucastia fuscus ( Hogg, 1900 )

Nucastia fuscus ( Hogg, 1900) , nomen dubium, new combination

Medmassa fusca Hogg, 1900: 113 . Holotype, juvenile ♀, Mount Macedon   GoogleMaps (37°23'S, 144°35'E), Victoria, BMNH 1907.2 .24.18, examined.

Remarks. The holotype clearly belongs to Nucastia in the shape of the carapace, eye group and absence of spines on tibia I. However, it is a juvenile and until adult material from the type locality, Mt Macedon, is found, the species is listed as nomen dubium. The type locality has been subjected to catastrophic fires in 1983 and prior to that targetted collecting (for species described by Hogg) of that important locality by the Museum of Victoria has not been undertaken. The Museum of Victoria holds no material from the type locality; my two visits to the area prior to the 1983 fire yielded no corinnid material. The coordinates given are that of "Cheniston", Hogg's Macedon home, and after which the nemesiid genus, Chenistonia , takes its name.