EDITORIAL NOTE. 



As stated in the Preface to Mr. Brunetti's preceding volume 

 (Diptera Brachycera, Vol. I, May 1920), it was necessary, from 

 want of space and for other reasons, to omit certain families from 

 that work. The present volume is devoted to these groups, tlie 

 PiPUNCULiD^, Sybphid.i:, Conopiu.e, and CKstbid.e. The inanu- 

 scri])t dealing with these families was received at the name time 

 as that of the earlier volume, hut in its present form the account 

 of them is substantially enlarged and to some extent re\\ritteii : 

 for, as the author explains below in his preface, several months' 

 work at the British Museum has enabled him to include 

 descriptions of a large number of additional species. 



Like the autlior, the editors wish to express their indebtedness 

 to tliose who have assisted in providing ilhistrations for the book ; 

 to Dr. N. Annandale for kindly allowing many liguros to be repro- 

 duced from blocks made for ' Eecords of the Indian Museum ' ; 

 to Mr. Bagchi, who has made a number of new figures, and 

 to Mr. Engel Terzi for his careful drawings of CoNOPiUyE and 

 CEsTBiDvE ; to the Societe Entomologique de France for their 

 courtesy in permitting re-publication of the figures of Korinchia 

 rufa given on pages 225-6, wliich recently appeared in their 

 ' Bulletin ' ; and to Monsieur J. llerve-Bazin foi- tlie loan oF his 

 original drawings of that insect. 



A. E. SHIPLEY. 



JaDuarv 1923. 



