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22. ii. 1930 (W. L. Morgan) (in New South Wales Department of Agriculture, 

 Rydalmere). Paralectotype : 1 3, same data as lectotype (in NSWDA, Rydalmere) ; 

 1 $, New South Wales, Narara [publ. as 'Worara'], 11.xi.1931 [publ. as '30'] 

 (W. L. Morgan) (NSWDA, Rydalmere). 



The lectotype bears an ink label reading 'Bred from Aulacophora hilaris adult 

 coll. Binniguy 22.2.30. W. L. Morgan' and the condition is fair except for some 

 collapse of the eyes and scutum and loss of apical half of left wing. One 

 paralectotype is labelled exactly as the lectotype and has its associated puparium 

 (the abdomen is gummed separately to the card mount); the other paralectotype 

 is labelled in ink 'Bred from Aulacophora hilaris adult coll. Narara n.11.31 

 W. L. Morgan'. 



The lectotype and paralectotypes each bear a name label in Hardy's writing 

 that reads 'Zosteromyia morgani Hardy PARATYPE' and a printed label 

 'Department of Agriculture, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia'. 



SUMMARY OF AUSTRALIAN NOMINAL SPECIES FOR WHICH TYPES 



ARE LOST OR MISSING 



The foregoing catalogue contains the names of 487 nominal species-group taxa 

 described from Australia (up to 1973). Primary types are known to exist for 

 458 of these taxa, but are lost or have not been located for the remaining 29 taxa. 

 The lost or missing types fall into two categories that are differentiated in the lists 

 of missing types that follow. The first category is that of types that can 

 confidently be asserted to be lost: in these cases (all of them nominal species 

 described by nineteenth-century authors) the types have never been found by later 

 workers and no specimens that could be the types have been found during personal 

 searches of likely depositories carried out for the preparation of this catalogue. 

 The second category is that of types which have not been found during the 

 preparation of this work but which may still exist: in these cases (mainly nominal 

 species described by twentieth-century authors) it is probable that types still exist 

 and will eventually be found in some small collection or unexpected place (those 

 of the two species described by Rondani, for example, may well be in a small 

 Italian museum but appear certainly not to be in Florence, Naples, or Genoa). 

 The distinction here made between 'lost' and 'missing' types is emphasized to 

 assist future revisionary work: it is considered that later workers may safely 

 assume that the types listed as 'lost' are truly lost or destroyed and will never be 

 found; on the other hand, searches will need to be made for the types listed as 

 'missing' whenever the relevant groups are studied in detail. The lists are 

 alphabetical under the original binomina. 



(a) Nominal species of which the types are lost 



Carcelia tasmanica Robineau-Desvoidy 

 Dexia hyria Walker 

 Exorista melas Bigot 



