Nov. 1918.] Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. ecclix 
other groups of Nemocera.! Mr. A. D. Imms, Forest Zoologist, 
supports the affinity of the Corethrinae with the Culicinae and 
insists, as all systematic entomologists have done, that they 
form a single family. Major James supplies a new arrangement 
of Indian Anophelinae and Dr. Enderlein and Prof. Hermann 
have separately contributed to our knowledge of the Asilidae. 
Prof. Kertesz has worked out the species of Sapromyza 
found in Formosa, New Guinea and Ternate, also describing 
three new Syrphids. He has monographed the genus Hvaza, 
(Stratiomyidae), and revised the Pipunculidae of South Asia 
and New Guinea besides describing a certain number of new 
Species in various families.” Prof. Kieffer in his work on the 
Cecidomyidae, notes all the oriental species.’ 
Messrs. Lefroy and Howlett are responsible for a very 
bulky popular book entitled “Indian Insect Life” liberally 
illustrated with figures and coloured plates. 
The chief work by Dr. Leicester has apparently been over- 
looked by many, even by those specialising in mosquitoes. 
This is a voluminous treatise on the culicidae of the Malay 
States* in which all the known species are very minutely des- 
cribed. Miss Ludlow has supplied various short papers on 
Philippine Mosquitoes.® : 
Mr. Mitter gives us the life-histories of two blood-sucking 
muscids, Haematobia sanguisugens, Aust. and Bdellolarynz san- 
- guinolentus, Aust., and notes the occurrence at Kasauli and 
reeding place of an allied blood-sucking muscid, Stygeromyia 
valuable information is found, and keys to a large number As 
species given. It is to be hoped that the remainder of the 
(bat parasites) but I have seen no fuller descriptions yet, 
though he has ‘ansoniied other new species both in this family 
and in the Hippoboscidae. 
entre 
from about 
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' Mainly in Ann. Magaz. Nat. Hist. and Bull. Ent. Res. 
1911 onwards. 
* Most of his papers appear in the Ann. Mus. Hung. 
° Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 152 (1913). TI (1908) 
: Studies Inst. Med. Research Fed. Malay States I ( : 
In various American journals. 
