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only doubtfully associated with the females and is therefore not a syntype. LEC- 

 TOTYPE $, Philippines: Luzon, Mt Makiling {Baker) (in United States National 

 Museum, Washington, D.C.). 



The second syntype (paralectotype), from Los Banos, has not been seen but is 

 thought to be the $ specimen from this locality standing in the collection of the 

 Estacion Experimental Agricola de la Molina in Lima, Peru. The USNM collection 

 contains, with the lectotype, another 9 specimen from Mt Makiling but this has 

 no type-status. 



SUMMARY OF ORIENTAL SPECIES-GROUP NAMES FOR WHICH 

 TYPES ARE LOST OR MISSING 



The foregoing catalogue contains 840 available species-group names that are 

 based upon types collected within the Oriental Region. Primary types are lost 

 or have not been located for only 39 (about 5%) of these names, a remarkably 

 similar proportion to the lost and missing types amongst Australian Tachinidae 

 (see Crosskey, 19736 : 165). The missing types can usefully be grouped in two 

 categories: firstly, types that have been destroyed (such as those formerly in Buda- 

 pest) or that have long been lost beyond any reasonable likelihood of rediscovery, 

 and, secondly, types that have not been found in spite of searches in the most 

 probable depositories but which are still quite likely to be found in future. The 

 distinction between these categories is important, as later workers can fairly safely 

 disregard any possible existence for types listed as 'lost or destroyed' but should 

 still be alert to the likely rediscovery of types in the 'missing' category. A few 

 Oriental nominal species have already had neotypes designated for them because 

 of loss of types, but such names are of course omitted from the lost types list. 



It is pointed out that types are lost or missing for some of the extra-Oriental 

 provenance names that are cited in the catalogue, but that the lists below are 

 strictly confined to species-group names based on types with an Oriental original 

 provenance. Types are listed under their original binomina. 



(a) 



Nominal species of which the types are lost or destroyed 



Bellina melanura Robineau-Desvoidy 

 Botnbyliomyia apicalis Matsumura 

 Calyptromyia barbata Villeneuve 

 Compsoptesis rufula Villeneuve 

 Dexia fuscicostalis Wulp 

 Dexia javanensis Macquart 

 Drino dilaticornis Mesnil 

 Eurigaster caprescens Walker 

 Gymnosoma indicum Walker 



Homotrixa brevifacies Villeneuve 

 Masicera prognosticans Walker 

 Oestrus bombycis Louis 

 Peleteria javanica Robineau-Desvoidy 

 Phasia indica Walker 

 Reaumuria timorensis Robineau- 

 Desvoidy 

 Rhedia atra Robineau-Desvoidy 

 Tachina umbrosa Walker 

 Therobia abdominalis Wiedemann 



