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Acknowledgments. Over the years I have had considerable 
help in the preparation in this paper from the staff of the various 
museums in which these specimens are deposited. These include: 
Walter Boles, Jan Brazier and Rose Docker (Australian Museum), 
Les Christidis, Wayne Longmore and Rory O’Brien (Museum 
Victoria), Graeme Phipps, Stuart Norrington and Julian Holland 
(Macleay Museum), Heather Janetzki (Queensland Museum) and 
Michael Walters (The Natural History Museum, Tring). Carlo 
Violani, Murray Bruce, Giorgio Chiozzi, Enrico Borgo, Giuliano 
Doria, Pietro Passerin d’Entreves and Claudio Pulcher were of 
great help during a visit to the museums in Milan, Genoa and 
Turin during August and September 1994 and in answering my 
ongoing enquiries. Assistance was also received from the staff 
of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and 
Macquarie University Library. In particular I thank Les Christidis 
for employing me at Museum Victoria in mid-1995 specifically to 
look for type specimens in the collection. Useful comments on the 
manuscript were made by Walter Boles, Wayne Longmore, Gerloff 
Mees, Harry Parnaby and two anonymous referees. 
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