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Micropalpus bicolor Macquart. 

 Musca sinuata Donovan 

 Ocyptera ? diversa Walker 

 Omalogaster nitidus Macquart 

 Palpostoma testacea Robineau-Desvoidy 

 Phorocera hyalipennis Macquart (1855) 

 Rutilia australasia Gray 

 Rutilia fulvipes Guerin-Meneville 

 Rutilia vidua Guerin-Meneville 

 Verreauxia auripilis Robineau-Desvoidy 



(b) 



Nominal species of which types are missing 



Calopygidia castanea Hardy 



Cuphocera pilosa Malloch 



Dexia brevipalpis Rondani 



Euthera skusei Bezzi 



Exorista trichopareia Schiner 



Linnaemyia nigripalpus Tryon 



Microtropesa skusei Bergroth 



Microtropeza fallax Hardy 



Prosena albifrons Malloch 



Prosena indecisa Malloch 



Prosena varia Curran 



Rhinomyobia australis Brauer & Bergenstamm 



Rutilia spinolae Rondani 



Schizotachina fergusoni Bezzi 



Zoster omyia fasciata Hardy 



Zosteromyia minor Hardy 



PART III- A HOST CATALOGUE FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TACHINIDAE 



INTRODUCTION 



The hosts of very nearly all true Tachinidae (from which I exclude the 

 Rhinophoridae, a group sometimes treated as tachinids) are other insects, but 

 centipede hosts are known. As a rule the larval or pupal stages of the hosts are 

 parasitized, especially the caterpillars of Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera Symphyta 

 and the soil- or wood-inhabiting grubs of Coleoptera, but when hemimetabolous 

 insects are the hosts it is usually the adult stage that is attacked; a few forms 

 parasitize adult beetles. The host-relations of the Australian Tachinidae conform 

 in their essentials with the general picture of tachinid parasitism, and there are 

 no insect orders providing hosts in Australia that do not also provide hosts in 

 other zoogeographical regions. In Australia eight insect orders are so far known 



