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will seldom be fully agreed on the entities to be accepted as named genera and 

 subgenera; but preparation of this catalogue has included a general study of the 

 type-species of all the genus-group taxa described from the Oriental Region and it 

 is thought that the generic limits adopted are as satisfactory as any that can be 

 chosen on the basis of current taxonomic knowledge. No doubt many changes 

 will be made in the future. 



Concurrently with this work I have prepared the Tachinidae part for A Catalog 

 of the Diptera of the Oriental Region (University of Hawaii Press) (Crosskey, in 

 press). The two works are different in scope and intention. The catalogue for 

 the University of Hawaii Press publication, being part of a general Oriental Uiptera 

 catalogue, contains only the names, summarized distributions and statements of 

 type-locality: it excludes any nomenclatural changes. On the other hand, the 

 present catalogue embodies all the manifold and essential changes of nomenclature, 

 provides a catalogue of all primary types (with their status and location), and provides 

 all necessary explanatory annotations where problems exist concerning names or 

 types. (It is possible that the Oriental Diptera catalogue might pre-date the 

 present publication, but in this event the nomenclatural changes are nonetheless 

 to be taken as definitively established in this paper.) 



EXPLANATORY INFORMATION ON THE CATALOGUE FORMAT 



Arrangement of taxa and names. Subfamilies are placed in the conventional 

 order beginning with Phasiinae and ending with Goniinae. Tribes are in systematic 

 order within subfamilies (rather arbitrary positional placements being made for 

 the more aberrant tribes). Genera, subgenera and species treated as valid are 

 listed alphabetically within their higher category, as there is no accepted order for 

 their placement. Nomenclatorial synonyms are listed chronologically under their 

 respective valid names. Incorrect subsequent spellings and misidentifications 

 are listed after the nomenclatorial synonyms (if any), and each entry of a misidentifi- 

 cation is placed in square brackets. 



Citation of names and references. In each side-entry the name (family- 

 group, generic, subgcneric or specific) is cited first, followed by its author and date 

 of publication and the page reference to the work in which the name appeared; 

 the author, year date (letter-suffixed if more than one work by the same author 

 in any year), and page are always sufficient for obtaining the complete reference 

 to the work containing the name from the bibliography. Where a work is best 

 known from a separately paginated reprint version the reprint page reference is 

 given in parentheses immediately after the journal page reference. 



The name of the original genus to which each species-group name was assigned 

 when first published is shown in parentheses immediately after the page reference 

 if it is different from the present generic assignment; if no generic name follows the 

 page reference it is to be inferred that the species-group taxon was originally placed 

 in the same genus as that in which it is here listed. This convention makes it 

 clear whether or not a species remains in its original genus, and parentheses have 



