Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878) . Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., p. 317.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales .

DISTRIBUTION: New South Wales, possibly Western Australia (Australia).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Selysius . Poorly known, the type and only certain specimen possibly being incorrectly labelled, or a vagrant individual of muricola . See also Aust. Bat Res. News, 9. A specimen from NW Australia may belong in this species (Koopman, 1984c:ll-12). Hill (1983) considered australis a subspecies of ater (here included in M. muricola).