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Acknowledgments. Preparation of the Australian Drosophilidae 
Checklist supported by Australian Biological Resources Survey 
(ABRS) led to the discovery of synonymy of dispar and setifemur. 
Extensive collecting in the Sydney region for the Australian 
Museum Pilot GIS Survey in 1991 was supported by an Australian 
Museum Visiting Scientist Research Fellowship for which I am 
most grateful. Many other records of the species discussed here are 
the result of drosophilid surveys supported by the Northeast New 
South Wales Forests Survey (NSW NPWS); and the IBISCA surveys 
of Lamington NP. Other specimens examined in this study were 
collected by P. Parsons, R. van Klinken, J.S.F. Barker, D. McAlpine, 
M. Polak, W. Starmer, M. Schiffer, D. Britton, C. Fambkin, N. 
Starick, and D. Wright. I thank David McAlpine, Dan Bickel, 
Gerhard Bachli and Michele Schiffer for useful comments. 
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Manuscript submitted 9 January 2009 and revised 16 February 2009. 
Accepted 16 February 2009 by Acting Editor: Daniel J. Bickel. 
