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Wo rid List abbreviation: Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Zool.) 

 © The Natural History Museum, 1995 



Zoology Series 

 ISSN 0968 - 0470 Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 1-90 



The Natural History Museum 



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London SW7 5BD Issued 29 June 1995 



Typeset by Ann Buchan (Typesetters), Middlesex 

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