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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 fuluvpes Guérin-Méneville 
Rutilia vidua Guérin-Méneville 
Verreauxia auripilis Robineau-Desvoidy 
(b) Nominal species of which types are missing 
Calopygidia castanea Hardy 
Cuphocera pilosa Malloch 
Dexia brevipalpis Rondani 
Euthera skuset Bezzi 
Exorista trichopareia Schiner 
Linnaemyia nigripalpus Tryon 
Miucrotropesa skusei Bergroth 
Miucrotropeza fallax Hardy 
Prosena albifrons Malloch 
Prosena indecisa Malloch 
Prosena varia Curran 
Rhinomyobia australis Brauer & Bergenstamm 
Rutilia spinolae Rondani 
Schizotachina fergusoni Bezzi 
Zosteromyia 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 
