eeelxvi Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Nov. 1918. 
has followed suit with equal vagueness. Van der Wulp, who 
was himself a specialist in the oriental species of this family, 
wrote a most useful paper in 1872 (unfortunately in Dutch),! 
but since then no serious attempt has been made to grapple 
with! them. 
He referred a number of Walker’s species of Dasypagon 
to more recent genera, Enderlein having done the same as 
regards Laphria, which illustrates the specific invalidity attri- 
butable to most of the species outside those dealt with by the 
eminent Dutch author. ; 
The Indian Museum and the Pusa Institute possess a large 
amount of material which I have arranged to work out as soon 
as the work already in hand is completed, and there are prob- 
ably a hundred new species awaiting descriptions. 
erlein, Hermann and de Meijere have each added some 
species but most authors have fought shy of plunging in this 
family until the ground has been to some extent cleared. 
mpidae.—A bare dozen species were known in 1896 but 
though specimens as a rule are not numerous, a fair number of 
species exist in the East. Over 50 were described in my 
paper on the family in 1913; Bezzi* supplementing this with 
nearly 30 others, many being from Formosa and Papua; de 
Meijera and Kertesz having added a few each from Papua and 
e 
for a stray species or two the group has been assiduously 
avoided 
_ Lonchopteridae.—Walker described a new genus and species 
which he doubtfully placed in this rather isolated family. 
Nothing definite about it has been published since, but I cap- 
! Tijd. v. Ent. 2 Ann. Mus, Hung. X, 452 (1912). 
