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like to thank Dr H. Levi and his staff of the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, J.W. 
Early of the Auckland Museum, Dr J.-P. Mauries of 
the Museum National d'Histoire, Paris, Dr J. 
Gruber of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Dr 
H. Dastych of the Zoologisches Museum, 
Hamburg, Dr T. Kingston and staff of Queen 
Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 
Tasmania and P.D. Hillyard of the British Museum. 
I should also like to thank Dr J.G.E. Lewis, Dr R. 
Mesibov, Prof. A. Minelli, Dr E.H. Eason and Dr 
A.G. Irwin for help and encouragement and Dr 
M.S. Harvey of Western Australian Museum for 
the loan that started the whole thing. Finally I 
should like to thank Norfolk Museum Service for 
research facilities. 
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