Consider a system of diagonal equations \begin{equation}\sum_{j=1}^sa_{ij}x_j^k=0\quad (1\le i\le r),\end{equation} satisfying the property that the (fixed) integral coefficient matrix $(a_{ij})$ contains no singular $r\times r$ submatrix. A recent paper of the authors [3] establishes that whenever $k\ge 3$ and $s>(3r+1)2^{k-2}$, then the expected asymptotic formula holds for the number $N(P)$ of integral solutions ${\bf x}$ of ($1{\cdot}1$) with $|x_i|\le P$$(1\le i\le s)$.