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legist's Section. I understand that Mr. Brunetti is publishing a cata- 

 logue of the Nematocera and it should not require a great deal of work 

 to complete a general list of Diptera. 



The Rhynchota, so far as dealt with in the " Fauna " volumes, have 

 been corrected up to Vol. VI in my copy of the " Fauna " volumes. 

 Vol. VII has to be added. 



The Aleyrodidae, Psyllidae, and Coccidse have not been listed. 

 It will be seen, therefore, that a good deal of the work has been done 

 already, more or less completely, and only requires a little more to be 

 done to bring it up to date. 



The Coleoptera compose the most formidable group whose listing 

 remains to be done, both because of the large numbers of families, genera 

 and species concerned and because of the extremely scattered literature 

 on this Order. 



Most of the other groups can be done, to some extent at least, with- 

 our present resoiu-ces. 



What I suggest is that we should, as far as possible, invoke the aid' 

 of specialists in various groups to prepare catalogues of those groups 

 not listed already and, as regards other groups, endeavour to list these 

 ourselves to the best of our ability. Such a catalogue could take any 

 one of the following forms, viz : — 



Form 1. — A mere list of Indian genera and species without refer- 

 ences or localities but with synonyms. 

 Form 2. — A list of genera and species with references, localities 



and synonyms. 

 Form 3. — A more complete list, as outlined above, with diagnoses 

 of groups, families and genera, citations of generic types, 

 and full references with synonyms and localities. 

 I give brief examples of these three Forms. Personally I think 

 that the third Form is the best and if we are to undertake the work 

 of preparing and issuing such a catalogue it would be most satisfactory 

 to do it really well and to put it in the most useful form. 



Form I.— Pterophori. 

 Pterojihorida Zell. 

 Agdistis, Hb. 



bennetii. Curt. 

 Cnffimidophorus, Wallngr. 

 _ rhododactylus, Fb. 



(Extract from R. Soidh's " Entomologist " synonymic List oj British 

 Lepidcptera .) 



