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BMNH collection, one from New South Wales and the other without locality label; 
these are considered to be both original syntypes as both came from Saunders’ 
collection (they are males, whereas Walker stated ‘Female’, but errors of sexing 
are frequent in Walker’s work). LECTOTYPE 4, Austratia: New South Wales 
(in British Museum (Natural History), London). Paralectotype 3, AUSTRALIA 
presumed (also in BMNH, London). 
Sisyropa cinerea Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891 : 346 (42). 
Described from both sexes but without statement of the number of specimens. 
Existing material consists of one 3 and one 2 syntype (mis-associated with each 
other), LECTOTYPE 3, Australia: Queensland, Rockhampton, 1868 (Thorey) 
(in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna). (Only the Rockhampton locality is 
mentioned in the original description.) 
The lectotype bears a label reading ‘Thorey 1868 Rock-hampton’ (the word 
Thorey and figures 186 in print, remainder in black ink), a label ‘cinerea det. B. B’ 
(handwritten in black ink except for the letters ‘det.’) and a label in purple ink 
reading ‘Blepharipoda Sisyropa’. The paralectotype is similarly labelled except 
that the words ‘Cap York’ are given for locality on the first label and there is no 
label in purple ink. 
Lectotype and paralectotype are mis-associated, the former being a Carcelia 
and the latter a winthemiine (Nemorilla sp.). Mesnil (19500: 9) referred to ‘le 
Carcelia (Eucarcelia) cinerea B. B. dont nous avons vu le type’, but this statement 
does not restrict the name to a single recognizable specimen and therefore does not 
constitute a valid lectotype fixation. Present designation of the g specimen as 
lectotype maintains the sense of the name used by Mesnil. Here it should be 
noted that Crosskey (19660 : 109) cited his assignment of cinerea to Carcelia as a 
new combination; this was due to an oversight, Mesnil’s (19500) earlier assignment 
to Carcelia in a work on African Carceliini having been overlooked. 
Tachina bura Walker, 1849 : 760. 
Described from two specimens, one presented to BMNH by Rev. T. Ewing 
from Van Diemen’s Land, and the other from New Holland and in the Rev. J. 
Wenham’s collection. Only the specimen from Tasmania has been found, which 
is here designated as lectotype. LECTOTYPE gd, AvustTraia: Tasmania (in 
British Museum (Natural History), London). 
The lectotype bears a circular white accession label with the ink figures ‘46 81’ 
and a pencilled label in Austen’s writing that reads ‘Tasmania. Rev. J. Ewing. 
46. 81’. 
Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810 : 265. 
Described from an unstated number of specimens of both sexes from ‘Esperéd i 
Skane’. The Fallén collection at Stockholm contains seven specimens standing 
