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XIV. Xd.'rs on Australian Sawflies, especially the " Authors' 

 Types " and oilier specimens in the British Museum 

 of Natural History and the Hope ('oiled ions of 

 the Oxford University Museum; with diagnostic 

 Synopses of the Genera and Species, and photographs 

 illustrating their structural characters. By the Rev. 

 Francis David Morice, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Read October 2nd, 1918.] 



Plates XI-XV. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



This paper — the first in which I have ventured to treat of 

 other than Palaearctic insects — is the result of an oppor- 

 tunity so exceptional that it seems almost a duty to make 

 use of it. For a considerable time this year I have had 

 continuous access in the British Museum of Natural History 

 (r/) to the entire " literature " of my subject, and (6) to 

 very nearly the entire material on which that literature 

 is based. The first Sawflies described from Australia were 

 Pterygophorus cinctus and interruptus of King (1812), and 

 the Types of these — presumably still at Berlin — were, of 

 course, inaccessible to me. But almost all Australian 

 genera or species since described were founded on specimens 

 st ill preserved either in the Museum above mentioned 

 (which shall hereinafter be denoted by the initials B.M.), 

 or in the 1 lope i lollections of the Oxford University Museum: 

 and. through the kind assent of Professor Poulton to an 

 application which I made to him. all specimens of Australian 

 Sawtlies in the latter ( lollections were temporarily entrusted 

 jo me for study and comparison with the materia] already 

 before me in B.M. 



Tins means that T have been able to examine at leisure 

 and with every facility that could assist me at hand (a) the 

 original author's Types (and sometimes also Co-types) of 

 all forms described by Leach in 1<SI7. Westwood in Arcana 

 Entomologica (1841)"and Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. (1880), 

 W. F. Kirby in his British Museum List and various later 

 "" Separata " (1881 to L894), Gilbert Turner in Proc, Linn. 



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