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kashmiri Tothill, 1918 : 57 (Frontina). Holotype <$, India: Uttar Pradesh, Dehra Dun 



(BMNH, London) [examined]. 

 jacobsoni Townsend, 1927a : 68 (Phryxoslurmia) . Lectotype $ (by fixation of Townsend, 



1941 : 120), Indonesia: Sumatra, Haran Kloof (ZM, Amsterdam) [examined]. 

 indica Curran, 1933 : 47 (Prosopaea). Holotype $, India: Uttar Pradesh, Dehra Dun 



(BMNH, London) [examined]. 

 [munda Wiedemann sensu Mesnil (misidentification)] 



Genus BLEPHARIPA Rondani 



Blephavipa Rondani, 1856 : 71. Type-species: Senometopia ciliata Macquart, 1835 [= Nemoraea 



scutellata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830], by original designation. (France). 

 Verreauxia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (1) : 893. Type-species: Verreauxia auripilis Robineau- 

 Desvoidy, 1863, by original designation. (Tasmania). [Junior homonym of Verreauxia 



Hartlaub, 1856.] 

 Ugimyia Rondani, 1870 : 137. Type-species: Ugimyia sericariae Rondani, 1870, by monotypy. 



(Japan). 

 Blepharipoda Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 : 96 (28). Type-species: Nemoraea scutellata 



Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, by monotypy. (France). [Junior homonym of Blepharipoda 



Randall, 1840.] 

 Crossocosmia Mik, 1890 : 313. Type-species: Ugimyia sericariae Rondani, 1870 (as sericariae 



Cornalia), by original designation. (Japan). [Junior objective synonym of Ugimyia 



Rondani.] 

 Eoparachaeta Townsend, 1927a : 70. Type-species: Eoparachaeta orienlalis Townsend, 1927 



[= Tachina sugens Wiedemann, 1830], by original designation. 

 Sumatrosturmia Townsend, 1927a : 70. Type-species: Sumatrostnrmia orbitalis Townsend, 



1927, by original designation. 

 Indosturmia Townsend, 1932 : 49. Type-species: Crossocosmia indica Brauer & Bergenstamm, 



1893 [— Tachina zebina Walker, 1849], by original designation. 

 Chrysopygia Townsend, 1933 : 471. Type-species: Chrysopygia auricaudata Townsend, 1933, 



by original designation. 

 albocincta Mesnil, 19706 : 94 (Crossocosmia (Blepharipa)) . Holotype <J, China: nr Shanghai, 



Kou-ling (CNC, Ottawa, ex coll. Mesnil). -China (Manchuria, Shanghai), India (Madras). 

 auricaudata Townsend, 1933 : 472 (Chrysopygia). Holotype <J, Indonesia: Java (NM, Vienna) 



[examined]. - Indonesia (Java, Lombok), Malaysia (Malaya, Sabah). 

 formosensis Townsend in Hennig, 1941 : 201 (Eoparachaeta). Nomen nudum (no later valida- 

 tion). 

 fusijormis Walker, 1849 : 1161 (Tachina). Holotype^, Nepal (BMNH, London) [examined]. 



Comb. n. - Burma, China, India (West Bengal), Nepal, Sikkim. 

 ? gigas Mesnil, 1950a : 144 (Blepharipoda, as var. of jacobsoni). Syntypes <$ $, China: 



Szechwan & Shanghai (not located). 



I have been unable to locate the syntypes of jacobsoni var. gigas in any of the likely 



collections. From description it appears nearly certain that the name applied to the 



large Himalayan species B. fusijormis. 

 jacobsoni Townsend, 1927a : 70 (Ugimyia). Holotype <$, Indonesia: Sumatra, Tandjung- 



gadang (ZM, Amsterdam) [examined]. - Indonesia (Sumatra); ? China, Japan. (Possibly 



= sugens). 

 orbitalis Townsend, 1927a : 70 (Sumatrosturmia). Lectotype <$ (by designation of Crosskey, 



1969 : 101), Indonesia: Sumatra, Tandjunggadang (ZM, Amsterdam) [examined]. - 



Burma, Ceylon, India (Assam), Indonesia (Celebes), Malaysia (Sabah). 

 sugens Wiedemann, 1830 : 306 (Tachina). Holotype <J, Indonesia: Java (RMNH, Leiden) 



[examined]. - Indonesia (Celebes, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia (Malaya, Sabah), Philip- 

 pines; Moluccas, New Guinea. 



