Nov. 1918.|] Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. eccelxix 
revealed the identity of some with European species, I have 
heard nothing of them since 
Muscidae Acalyptrata. —About half the number of Muscidae 
(s. latiss.) are acalyptrate and the groups may be regarded for 
convenience sake as subfamilies, though many present writers 
give them all family rank. The order of these groups is some- 
what optional but personally I like Van der Wulp’s sequence 
as well as any and have followed it here, partly also because of 
greater ease in comparison, except that i prefer the older terms 
Micropezinae for Calobatinae and Oscininae for Chloropinae. 
Cordylurinae.—The common European dung fly, Scatophaga 
stercoraria, L.. has not been recorded from the East, yet I found 
it quite as common in Mussoorie and Darjeeling on various 
Visits as at Wimbledon Common or r Epping Forest at hom 
Helomyzinae.—Of Walker’s 20 species of Helomyza, Hendel 
refers no less than 13 of them to Sapromyza 
Sciomyzinae.—I have taken the very handsome and not 
uncommon European Dryomyza formosa at Mussoorie and it 
occurs at other se stations eae notes on the Indian Sepedons 
were given by some years ago, and one of my new species 
oo soeined: lédbopasieesy"i is sy nonymous with javanensis, 
) 
Mi icropezinae, —Several of the species of Nerius in Van der 
Wulp’s Catalogue are erroneous, and have been corrected by 
himself and Kertesz. The large genus Calobata badly requires 
careful revision after inspection of t 
epsinae.—This natural little group has been twice sia 
y de eyes in 1904 who added 9 new species, and by m 
1909 wit a new 
Diopsinae. —A limited and very peculiar group in which 
several caknae of synonymy have been pointed out They 
are very conspicuous by the eyes being placed at the ends of 
longer or shorter stalks projecting from the head. A species 
sometimes occurs in vast numbers, the only one of which I have 
personal experience ae Sphyracephala hearsayana, Westw. 
which within the space of a few days I found in profusion 
under a low arch over a roadside ditch in Cawnpore about 
30-xi-04 and also in the old Residency at Lucknow 4-xii-04. 
Ortalinae.—A very extensive group (filling 14 pages of 
Van der Wulp’s Catalogue) which cuts up into several natural 
subdivisions. Many species are handsomely marked. It seems 
to me the genus Dacus is more akin to this group than to the 
Trypetinae. Bezzi revised this genus some time bac endel 
has done the same with the P2 yrgota group and Iam eiiacent: 
ing to out Stenopterina. 
tinae or fruit flies—Bezzi has exhaustively mono- 
graphed ts Indian Museum collection in this family,! the text 
: ' Unfortunately under the inadmissible name of Trypaneidae, Mem. 
nd. Mus. IIT, 53-175 (1913). 
