eeelviii Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Nov. 1918. 
4. Review of Progress in our Knowledge of Oriental Diptera 
during the last two decades —By KE. BRUNETTI. 
[Read at the Fifth Meeting of the Indian Science Congress. | 
those that may, from oversight, be omitted. 
Dr. Annandale has described a very interesting and ex- 
ceedingly minute insect Rhynchomicropteron and several new 
species of biting moth-flies (Phlebotomus) from India and 
‘« Entomology for Medical Officers” is one of the best works of its 
nature. Prof Bezzi in two “centuries” of Philippine Dipter 
introduces several new species and recognises many of those of 
the older authors. He has also monographed the Indian 
species of T'rypetidae or fruit flies in the Memoirs of the Indian ~ 
Museum IIT; and furnished an important second article on 
them in the Bull. Ent. Res., and he has also written up the 
Leptidae and Empidae of Formosa in three papers. 
_ Dr. de Meijere, principally in the Dutch Tijd. voor Entom., 
gives us eleven very valuable and carefully compiled pape™® 
chiefly on Javan diptera, but including a good number of 
species from New Guinea, Sumatra, and a small adjoming 
island Simalur, and occasionally from other parts. His com 
cise descriptions total several hundred, and many of the older 
species are redescribed, the plates accompany a 
i ; 
papers on Culicidae, renders yeoman service in reducing 2 
large number of alleged species in this family to synonymy 
and also contributes a few pages of valuable synonymy 3? 
! Jour. Asiat. So. Beng. VI, 135 (1910). : 
2 Published in Phil. Jour. ace, Vath, 305 (1913), and IX, 107 Soke 
