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University of Queensland, Brisbane); Dr P. Wygodzinsky (American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York). 



I am most grateful to Dr Colless, Professor Lee and Dr McAlpine for the working 

 facilities and other help given to me at their respective institutions during a visit 

 to Australia in 1965 and for putting all the tachinid types in their care at my 

 disposal; and I think Monsieur L. Matile and Dr L. Tsacas for similar assistance 

 during a visit to the Paris Museum in 1969 to study Macquart's types. 



Dr R. Defretin (Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Lille) provided me with information 

 on material in Macquart's personal collection in Lille, and Dr B. Herting gave me 

 valuable information on Rondani's types in Florence, and I gratefully acknowledge 

 this help. I am indebted to Dr Curtis Sabrosky for providing me with the original 

 references to the family-group names cited in the catalogue (these are taken from 

 Dr Sabrosky's manuscript catalogue of family-group names in the Diptera). 



I express my appreciation to the many colleagues, too numerous to name 

 individually, in the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History) 

 and the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology who have checked the insect 

 names cited in the host lists, and have often gone to great pains to divine the 

 meaning of many of the rather cryptic renderings of host data on the tachinid 

 data labels. 



During the preparation of this work I have taken account of the Tachinidae of 

 New Guinea collected there personally in 1965. That collecting was supported 

 financially by the Nuffield Foundation and by the Commonwealth Scientific and 

 Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, and I am grateful to these bodies for 

 their assistance. 



Finally I thank my wife for writing, on my behalf, voluminous notes on 

 type-specimens during visits to Australia and Paris. 



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