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(Natural History), and has been directly compared with the specimen chosen as neotype of 
lepida; the two primary types are undoubtedly conspecific. Rutilia lepida occurs in south- 
eastern Australia from northern New South Wales to Victoria, and the neotype chosen (from 
near Canberra) is from a fairly central position in the normal range. 
Rutilia pellucens Macquart, 1846 : 305 (177). 
NEOTYPE g. AvustTrRaLia, New South Wales, Durras Bay, 15—-30.x.1953 (F. M. Hull) (in 
British Museum (Natural History), London). 
This species was described from a single specimen (holotype) that stood in Fairmaire’s 
collection. Crosskey (1971) considered the type lost, as no Diptera from Fairmaire’s collection 
have been located; however, the identity of pellucens is clear from the five specimens of the 
species in the British Museum (Natural History) collection that were identified by Macquart 
himself. The existence of several species of Rutiiia which are extremely similar to pellucens 
and easily confused with it, makes neotype fixation desirable: as there is no data on the specimens 
identified by Macquart, other than that they came from Australia, a recently collected specimen 
with full data has been chosen as neotype after direct comparison with the specimens seen by 
Macquart. 
Rutilia regalis Guérin—Méneville, 1831 : plate 21, fig 1. 
NEOTYPE g. Avustratia, Australian Capital Territory, Tharwa, 14.ii.1951 (S. J. Para- 
monov) (in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra). 
Guérin-Méneville’s excellent coloured plate of this species (published in 1831, earlier than the 
text description 1838) shows a large rather uniformly green Rutilia, and has enabled later 
workers to recognize vegalis correctly. Specimens of R. rvegalis vary slightly in the intensity 
and shade of green colouring; the original plate figure shows a specimen that is rather golden- 
green, and the specimen chosen as neotype has a slight golden tinge. The range of the species 
is mainly from New South Wales to South Australia. 
Rutilia setosa Macquart, 1847 : 94 (78) 
NEOTYPE g. Austratia, New South Wales, 4 miles North of Bateman’s Bay, 20.x.1953 
(S. J. Paramonov) (in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra). 
Crosskey (1971) showed that the type of this species is lost. It was originally described from 
specimens in Bigot’s collection said to be from Tasmania (though there is much uncertainty 
about the exact origins of the Australian specimens in Bigot’s collection). Macquart’s descrip- 
tion of a brown Rutilia in which the abdomen has the ‘deuxiéme segment muni de huit 4 douze 
soies au bord postérieur’ (i.e. T3 with a transverse row of 8-12 median marginal setae in modern 
terminology) can only relate to a species of Rutilia s. str. close to vivipara (Fab.); however it is 
clearly not vivipara itself, which has entirely reddish yellow legs, because Macquart records 
‘pedibus nigris; tibiis testaceis’. In New South Waies there occurs a species close to vivipara 
but having the femora and tarsi largely blackish and contrasting with the reddish yellow tibiae, 
and it is to this species (until now unnamed) that Macquart’s name sefosa is considered to apply, 
and from which the neotype here chosen is designated. Rutilia setosa Macquart differs from 
R. vivipara (Fabricius) by having the suprasquamal ridge bare, as well as in the leg coloration 
mentioned. 
Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805 : 309. 
NEOTYPE gf. Avsrraria, New South Wales, Barrington Tops, 9.iv.1949 (S. J. Paramonov) 
(in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra). 
The provenance of Fabricius’ material has always been assumed to be Australia, though the 
locality was cited as ‘Insulis maris pacifici’ in the original description; Fabricius’ description 
fits so well with the common eastern Australian Rutilia species that has always been accepted as 
vivipara that there is really no doubt about the true identity, and a specimen from New South 
Wales fitting with both the past concept of vivipava and with Fabricius’ description is here 
designated as neotype. As vivipara is type-species of Rutilia, this neotype is the nomenclatorial 
