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APPENDIX 



The additional information given below came to my attention while this work was 

 at the page-proof stage. It is listed in order of the relevant pages in the foregoing text. 



p. 62. Dr William Cade has shown that the American ormiine fly Euphasiopteryx 

 ochracea (Bigot) orientates acoustically to its gryllid hosts, responding to tape- 

 recordings of the host's song and larvipositing on dead crickets mounted on the 

 speaker. His finding reinforces the suggestion made on p. 62 of this work that the 

 enormously inflated prosternum of Ormiini might be some kind of acoustic mech- 

 anism. Reference: Cade, W., 1975, Acoustically orienting parasitoids: fly phonotaxis 

 to cricket song, Science N.Y. 190: 1312-1313. 



p. 211. Actia eucosmae Bezzi, 1926, must be added to the list of Oriental species 

 of Actia. Although originally described from Australia this species was recorded by 

 Malloch (1930c : 130) from Los Banos in the Philippines on the basis of specimens 

 from this locality in the USNM collection. I overlooked this record when preparing 

 the catalogue, but have no doubt that it is valid even though I have not seen the 

 material. Reference to original description: Bezzi, M., 1926, A new tachinid (Dipt.) 

 from Australia, with notes on the forms with obliterated fourth vein, Ann. Mag. nat. 

 Hist. (9) 17 : 236-241. Holotype $, Australia: Queensland, Milton Farm (publ. as 

 'Brisbane') (BMNH, London) [examined]. 



p. 214. After the Siphonini part of the catalogue was prepared an Opinion of the 

 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature was published designating 

 geniculata (De Geer) as the type-species of Siphona and setting aside previous modes 

 of type-fixation for this genus. The type-species of Siphona should be cited not as 

 fixed by monotypy but by designation of ICZN under Opinion No. 1008 (see Bull, 

 zool. Norn. 30 : 157, 1974). 



p. 228. Add Queensland to distribution data of Argyrophylax nigrotibialis Baranov. 



p. 238. The nominal type-species of the genus Palexorista Townsend is succini 

 Giebel, and this name was treated in an earlier work (Crosskey, 1966c) as synony- 

 mous with solennis. This synonymy was justified at the time, as it was then believed 

 that the copal in which the holotype of succini is embedded had an Oriental pro- 

 venance. Since then, however, spectroscopic analysis has established that the copal 

 block containing the specimen almost certainly originated from a tree of the legumin- 

 ous genus Trachylobium native in East Africa (Prof. Dr W. Hennig, pers. comm.). 

 In view of this information succini is no longer considered to be a synonym of the 

 Oriental solennis but is considered to be an East African species; its exact identity 

 remains uncertain, however, because the holotype is female and inaccessible in its 

 copal block and the difficult taxonomy of female African Palexorista species makes 

 it impossible to place. As succini dates from Giebel (1862) it is an old name by African 

 standards and will probably remain valid when the species can be recognized. 



p. 282. The African tachinid Sturmiopsis parasitica (Curran) has recently been 

 introduced into India for laboratory experimentation against Oriental graminaceous 

 stem-borers, but has apparently not yet been released in the field. Reference: 

 Nagarkatti, S. & Rao, V. P., 1975, Biology of and rearing technique for Sturmiopsis 



