NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN BOMBYLIIDIE, 



MOSTLY FROM THE MANUSCRIPT PAPERS OF THE 



LATE ARTHUR WHITE. 



By G. H. Hardy. 

 (Read 6th August, 1923.) 



The manuscript papers of the late Arthur White are in 

 the possession of Dr. E. W. Ferguson, to whom I am in- 

 debted for permission to publish original matter contained 

 therein. These manuscripts consist of (1) contributions 

 that have already been published; (2) a very large mass of 

 compiled notes and descriptions, interspersed amongst which 

 ai'e (3) a few pages of original material that have not been 

 published, and that contain certain information based upon 

 the examination of Walker's types in the British Museum. 



Notes on the types of earlier described species are of 

 utmost importance, but White limited his observations al- 

 most entirely to those characters that he could use in keys, 

 and often a number of species included by him under a 

 genus also include some he has never seen. It is difficult to 

 judge how much of the keys is based on observation and 

 examination of the type material, and how much on com- 

 pilations from other works. 



Owing to this confusion, White's manuscript cannot be 

 compiled into a condition suitable for publication as an in- 

 dependent paper. I have therefoi-e considered it advisable 

 to publish White's records with my own, and to accept that 

 which appears to me to be original, and within the prob- 

 ability of being correct. 



The keys and notes taken from White's manuscript are 

 indicated so that it can be readily understood how much of 

 my paper is to be attributed to White's researches. 



So far only manuscript containing linmbyliidn' and 

 NcmcHtrbr'Khr has been found to contain unpublished matter, 

 and from the information given in the former family, I find 

 it necessary to amend my catalogue on the Bombyliklu' which 

 was previously published in these Proceedings; some altera- 

 tions which are the result of other researches ai"e also in- 

 cluded. White's key to the N cmeHirinidiv is given else- 

 where. 



