some (>//'tV(/(// Nyctt'iibiuhe. '2l'.t 



and figured in the ? sex. Eucuinpsipodia liyrlU luul only 

 been figured in the S sex ; figures of the ? are now 

 published. 



Remarks on the Hosts. — It will be noticed that three 

 of the species are recorded from more than one species of 

 but. Of these Nycteribia (A.) eu.re.sta has been found on 

 two species of the same genus, H'l/iposideros ; Cycli>])odia 

 roylei has been taken on tliree closely allied forms of the 

 insectivorous Scoto/ihilus and on two other quite distinct 

 hosts, one of which is also an insectivorous form {Tytu- 

 nyderis pachypus), while the other is the bat- Citing l)at 

 Meyuderma lyra. Both the other species of Cyclopodia have 

 been found only on Iruit-eating bats, ('.ferrarii on Cynopterus, 

 and C. sykesi on the great Indian "flying-fox ' Pteropus 

 yiganteus. The case of the widespread Kucampsipodia hyrtli 

 IS remarkable : it a[)pears to infest the large fruit-eating 

 bats of the genus Roiisettus and the small insect-eating 

 Tylunyctcris puclnjpiis. With the excepion of the fruit- 

 eating Cy/iopterus and Fteropus, and of Megadtrma lyra, all 

 the other hosts are insect-eaters. Tliese remarks were 

 suggested by information received from ^Ir. Old Held Thomas, 

 to whom I am much indebted for help. To him also is due 

 the determination of the bats on which Fryer's material was 

 found. 



Peuicillidia, Kolenati. 



1. Penicillidia jenynsi (Westwood). 



Hycterlbia jemjTisi, Westwood, J j Trnns. Zool. See. London,!. ]83o, 



p. 2!)1, pi. xxxvi. tigs. 29-o4. 

 Penicillidia Jem/nsi, Speiser, cf , Arch. Naturjr. Ixvii. ], 1901, p. 28. 

 retiicillidia jenyiifi, Scott, <S $ , Tran.«. Ent. Soc. London, lOUS, p. 360, 



pi. xviii. tigs. 1-8 ; id. Aich. Naturg. IxxLx. A, 1913, p. 95. 



This species was originally described from China. Schiner 

 somewhat doubtfully referred to it a single specimen (a ^ , 

 judging from his remarks) obtained in Ceylon (' Novara 

 Keise,' Diptera, 18(38, p. 375). Speiser, in his revision of 

 the family, included Schiner's record, but quite rightly 

 queried it {op. cit. p. 49). The occurrence of the species in 

 Ceylon is now established by the fact that 2 ? were 

 collected at Peradeniya by Fryer. I have already referred 

 to these two specimens in discussing a long series from 

 Formosa (1913. /. c). They present certain variations in 

 detail from the form described as the type ? in 1908, 

 variations which are also found in some of the F^ormosan 

 examples. These variations consist principally in certain 



