ON A COLLECTION OF JAVANESE CRANE-FLIES (TIP- 
ULIDAE, DIPTERA) IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL 
MUSEUM. 
By Charles Paul Alexander, 
Of the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The present paper is based on the extensive collections of insects 
taken on the island of Java in 1909 by Messrs. Owen Bryant and 
William Palmer. The crane-flies of this collection number about 150 
specimens referable to some 60 species. 
There has been a great amount of work done upon the crane-fly 
fauna of India and the East Indies in recent years and this has been 
accomplished for the greater part by the following workers: 
Wiedemann in his Diptera exotica (1821) and Aussereuropaische 
zweifliigelige Insekten (1828) characterized a number of Javan species. 
His descriptions are excellent and very few of his species remain 
unrecognized. Francis Walker described a very considerable num- 
ber of species, since he had access to the immense collections of 
the British Museum and William W. Saunders, the latter includins: 
most of the material taken by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay 
Archipelago. DoleschaU (1856-1858) described a few species from 
the Dutch East Indies, Van der Wulp up until his death in 1899 
published a number of articles deahng with the dipterous fauna of 
Java; these papers contain splendid descriptions and often beauti- 
fully colored figures by the author. 
The living workers include Brunetti whose recent volume on the 
Diptera Nematocera of India (Fauna of British India, 1912) will do 
much to stimulate the study of this order in that country. Ender- 
lein, who has pubhshed one very valuable paper (1912), most of his 
East Indian material being from Sumatra. Riedel in a short series 
of articles (Supplementa Entomologica, No. 1, August, 1912; Ento- 
mologische Mitteilungen, vol. 2, August, 1913), has worked over 
Sauter's Formosan collections. Edwards has given some very valu- 
able contributions to our knowledge of the Oriental and African 
faunas; his most recent paper, a revision of the difficult genus 
Stynngomyia (1914) is especially helpful. By far the most important 
work on the crane-ffies of the island under consideration is that of 
Doctor de Meijere who has pubhshed a long series of valuable articles 
on the Dipterous fauna of Southeast Asia. 
Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 49— No. 2103. 
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