18 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XVII, 
Furcinerva, Rond., Nuovi Ann. Soc. Nat. Bologna 
(2) VI, 369 (1846).! 
Mimosciara, id., Mem. Ta. ditt. Ital. 25 (1840). 
Molobraea, td., Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Milano, II, 
287 (1860). 
Y posataea, id., Dipt. Ital. Prod. I, 198 (1856). 
indica Kieff., Rec. Ind. Mus. III, 1209, fig. 1, wing (1900). 
Calcutta [Annandale]; Kurseong, 26-iii-10 [Gravely]. 
ceylanica Kieff., Spol. Zeyl. VIII, 29, 2 (1912). 
Peradeniya, 13-v-10, at light. lyfe in Indian Museum, 
unique. 
Family MYCETOPHILIDAE. 
Subfamily SCIARINAE. 
Sciara, Mg. 
Illig. Mag. II, 263 (1803). 
Sch., Fauna Austr. IL, 417: Auctt. var. 
Brun., Fauna Brit. Ind., Dipt., 120, figs. (p. 121) 
pl. ii, 15—17, wings. 
GENOTYPE, S. thomae L,.” 
Molobrus, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. XIV, 288 (1805). 
GENOTYPE, T1pula thomae \,., as the “ Tipule de 
Thomas.”’ 
Planetes, Walk., Ent. Month. Mag. III, 178 (1836). 
GENOTYPE, P. extremus, id., loc. cit., sp. nov. 
Planatella, Westw., Synop. gen. Brit. Ins., 126 
(1840). 
indica Walk.,? Ins. Saunds. Dipt. V, 419 (1856). 
Brun., Fauna Brit. Ind. I, 130, @. 
East India; Darjiling, 5-viii-og [Paiva]; Kurseong, 13—16- 
vil-o7; common, 14-viii-og [Paiva]; Siliguri, 18—20-vii-07 ; 
Phagu, 21-v-16; Bhim Tal, 19—22-ix-o6 [Annandale]; Senchal, 
v-13. Type in British Museum in good condition. 
pusilla Dol., Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. X, 407, pl. iv, 4 (Scatopse) (1856). 
Java. Type, location unknown, apparently lost. 
laticornis Walk., Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. I, 105, #7 @ (1857). 
Sarawak. Type in British Museum, damaged but recog- 
nizable. 
B) 

' Furcinerva was founded on the union of Zygoneuva Mg., Lestremia Macq., 
Mimosciava Rond. and Catocha Hall. In his Prodrome vol. I, Rondani admits 
Catocha as valid, ignores Furycinerva and erects Vposataea for the three other 
genera without any type species. Coquillett proposed Mimosciara molobrina 
Rond., which was the genotype of this latter genus. : 
* S. thomae \. , the common European species, was recorded from Sumatra 
by Van der Wulp (Dipt. Sum. Exped. 7, and Cat. Dipt. S. Asia, 1), but in the 
latter work he says that Rtibsaamen (Berl. Ent. Zeits. XX XIX, 32) doubts the 
identity of the species. 1 therefore refrain from including it in the present cata- 
logue. 
8S. indica Walk. is a good and conspicuous species, but his others are 
mostly unrecognizable from the descriptions, except perhaps filipes. 
