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THIS work is a specialised monograph on species of flies of the family Empididæ and is based largely upon extensive collections made in New Zealand by Mr. T. R. Harris, who presented the specimens to the British Museum. Material from other private collectors has also been drawn upon, and the result of Mr. Collin's study of these several collections is to raise the number of known New Zealand species of the family from 23 to a total of 102. This, indeed, is a very satisfactory result, and indicates how much there still remains to be done before the Diptera of that country are adequately known.
New Zealand Empidid: based on Material in the British Museum (Natural History).
By J. E. Collin. Pp. viii + 110. (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1928.) 7s. 6d.
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I., A. New Zealand Empididæ: based on Material in the British Museum (Natural History) . Nature 122, 473 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122473c0
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