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LOEW AS A DIPTEROLOGIST 
just after he had received the remarkable Blepharocerid Hammathor- 
rhina from Ceylon. lie discovered in this insect a relationship 
with Cecidomyia (“ ein Fingerzeig nach Cecidomyia ”), a surmise 
which, of course, had no other foundation than a superficial re¬ 
semblance of the incomplete venation of this genus with that of 
some Cecidomyiae. 
In my paper, “ Contribution to the Study of Liponeuridae ” ( Berl. 
JSnt. Zeit., 1895; 144, 1895), I published (p. 163-165) a criticism 
of Loew’s erroneous synonymy of Blepharocera fasciata and of 
Liponeura cinerascens. This very intricate case occurred during 
Loew’s latest period, when he was already disabled by illness, and 
is therefore easily excusable. 
Concerning Loew’s constant and total neglect of the Tipulidae , 
I shall only recapitulate what I have said before in Chapter II. 
Loew's first attempt at a classification of this family appeared in 
his paper: “Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna ” (1850). 
Of the utterly unscientific method used by him in introducing this 
classification I have given an account, based upon his own confes¬ 
sion (compare Chapter IX). Since that first attempt, Loew seems 
to have conceived a singular aversion for any study, or improve¬ 
ment, of the classification of the Tipulidae , as if he felt equally 
reluctant to give up his own work, or to have it demolished by 
others. I cannot otherwise explain the supercilious treatment he 
gave to my classification of this family. I have shown elsewhere 
(p. 63) that in Dr. Peters’s “ Reise in Mozambique” (1862) Loew 
had published, under the generic name of Limnobia in the widest 
sense of Meigen, a Tipulid which belonged to the section Aniso- 
merina. I have also shown (p. 64) that, during more than fifteen 
years, Loew had taken for congeneric the Amber Tipulid which he 
called Toxorrhina, and a recent Tipulid from the West Indies, 
which he had described and figured under the same name, although 
the former has a normal, and the latter a totally different and very 
anomalous venation. It was towards the end of his career only 
that Loew showed me some justice, and urged me to overhaul his 
Amber Tipulidae and to apply to them my systematic arrangement 
(see p. 66, above). 
About the work of Loew on the classification of the Orthor- 
