R. W. CROSSKEY 



(b) Nominal species-group taxa of which the types are missing 



Alsomyia indica Villeneuve 

 Aulacocephala karnyi Malloch 

 Blepharipoda jacobsoni v. gigas Mesnil 

 Calodexia lasiocampae Wulp 

 Carcelia nasuta Villeneuve 

 Compsoptesis phoenix Villeneuve 

 Cuphocera ? tricolor Lichtwardt 

 Demoticus strigipennis Wulp 

 Dexia fulvifera Roder 

 Drino inconspicuella v. sinensis Mesnil 

 Echinomyia lampros Wulp 



Exorista fasciata Jaennicke 

 Nemoraea triangidata Villeneuve 

 Paratachina vulpecula Wulp 

 Phytorophaga ventralis Bezzi 

 Prohypotachina riitilioides Townsend 

 Pseudoperichaeta insidiosa v. 



monochaeta Mesnil 

 Siphona gedeana Wulp 

 Sturmia oculata Baranov 

 Trischidocera santeri Villeneuve 

 Voria edentata Baranov 



The foregoing list (b) omits five names that take their availability from puparial 

 descriptions made by Gardner (19406) and for which the puparia used for drawing 

 up the descriptions (i.e. the puparial types) have not been found. The situation 

 here is unusual from the nomenclatural viewpoint. Gardner did not intend to 

 describe the five species (Actia mallochiana, Dolichocolon ater, Euhapalivora indica, 

 Exorista grisellina, Masicerella indistincta) as new for he thought that Baranov 

 had descriptions of the adults in press and specifically wrote (Gardner, 19406 : 177) 

 'It is possible that descriptions of one or two of Dr. Baranoff's species have not 

 yet been published and should this be so, my descriptions of puparia are in no way 

 intended to establish specific names'. However, presumably because of war 

 conditions, Baranov's descriptions of the five species listed above were never pub- 

 lished. Nevertheless, under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 

 the names are available from Gardner's puparial descriptions and their authorship 

 attributes to Gardner. It follows that the type(s) for each must be the puparium(-a) 

 that Gardner used for the description, though it is doubtful whether he would ever 

 have labelled the puparia in any way that would prove conclusively that any named 

 puparia that can be found in India (where Gardner worked at the time of description) 

 actually have type-status. The most probable location of any puparia that might 

 be types is the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. 



PART III — A HOST CATALOGUE FOR THE ORIENTAL TACHINIDAE 



INTRODUCTION 



The Tachinidae of the Oriental Region, as in other parts of the world, are parasites 

 of much significance as many of them attack economically important insect pests. 

 Because of their potential as biological control agents they have been widely investi- 

 gated by entomologists working in departments of agriculture and forestry, and 

 at the Oriental stations of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, 

 but relatively few species have been intensively studied: most of the available 

 information on host relations is patchily scattered in the literature, and much of it 



