186 R. W. CROSSKEY 
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 (Musée 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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