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day-to-day identification work on Tachinidae and assisted by checking some of 

 the keys; this was most helpful. 



Lastly I thank Mrs M. E. Crosskey for taking down voluminous notes on type- 

 specimens during visits to the museums at Paris and Amsterdam and for help in 

 preparing the indexes. 



ADDENDUM TO MV CONSPE( TUS OF AUSTRALIAN TACHINIDAE 



Three years ago I published a conspectus of Australian Tachinidae (Crosskey, 

 19736), similar in style and purpose to the present work on the Oriental fauna. 

 Since that paper appeared some additional taxonomic information on Australian 

 tachinids has come to hand, and some minor errors and oversights in it have been 

 discovered. I am taking this opportunity of providing corrections and supple- 

 mentary information, arranged (as seems most convenient) in page order of the 

 original work. 



p. 40. It is found that some specimens of Eutherini have the abdominal Ti -f- 2 

 not fully excavate to the hind margin, and the statement on this character should 

 be modified accordingly. 



p. 51. In Palpostomatini the ventral ends of the tergites of the abdomen are 

 not normally contiguous in the mid-ventral line but leave the sternites partially 

 exposed. The second half of couplet 2 (last item) and the second half of couplet 

 7 (first item) should be appropriately modified. 



p. 54. The last character cited in the list of principal features of Palpostomatini 

 should be changed to read 'sternites usually partially exposed'. It has now been 

 found that Palpostoma aldrichi has only one post ia seta instead of the normal 

 complement of two in the genus Palpostoma. The words '(except in P. aldrichi 

 with one)' should be interpolated at the appropriate point in the second half of 

 key couplet 1. 



p. 55. Myiotrixini. Hitherto only a single specimen of this tribe was known 

 (the holotype of Myiotrixa prosopina) . Dr Donald Colless has now found a series 

 of Myiotrixa specimens among the unworked tachinid material in ANIC. These 

 include a series of both sexes (one of each now in BMNH) of M. prosopina reared 

 from native Australian cockroaches in New South Wales, and specimens of a second 

 (undescribed) species of Myiotrixa. 



p. 74. Insert the words 'Propleuron bare' as the second item in the second half 

 of key couplet 1. (Cuphocera differs from other Australian genera of Tachinini 

 by having the propleuron bare.) 



p. 76. It is emphasized that the statement 'pre-alar seta long and strong . . . .' 

 at the beginning of the key refers to the size of this seta in relation to the size of 

 the other setae of the thoracic dorsum and must not be taken to mean in any absolute 

 sense (some forms in which the pra seta is relatively large actually have rather small 

 mesonotal setae). 



p. 115. Year date for Prosena argentata Walker (line 9) should be 1858 (see 

 annotation under p. 193 below). 



