ecclxx Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Nov. 1918. 
aided by three large plates of exceptionally good figures of 
wings from which it becomes a real pleasure to name specimens. 
A good many names are overturned as synonymic and but few 
species have been described since his work. 
promyzinae.—The world’s species of this subfamily were 
recently compiled by Hendel in the Genera Insectorum, Fase. 
68 (1908), under the name of Lauxaninae. These endeavours to 
change family or subfamily names are. unpardonable. The 
oriental species total about 150; Kertesz having set up over 40 
in Sapromyza alone, mostly from Papua. The rest of the species 
since ue are about equally divided between Kertesz and de 
Meije 
"Oeh yphinae.—A small group of peculiar flies with the 
scutellum so enormously developed as to give the insects the 
appearance of small metallic blue or dull yellowish beetles. 
The limits of the few alleged species appear somewhat 
aZY 
Psilinae, Borborinae, Ochthiphilinae, Etphydrinae, Agro- _ 
— myzinae, \_Har dly any progress has been made in these but the 
Indian Museum possesses a fair amount of undetermined material 
in the latter two groups. 
Oscininae.—De Meijere and Becker jointly have buere 
an exhaustive treatise on the “ Chloropidae”’ of Java and the 
former author has described about 30 species in vddition in 
separate papers.” 
Geomyzinae.—About 50 new species, mostly by de Meijere 
have recently fe Seeks about half of them being i in Drosophilt. 
Phoridae.—Brues revised this group in 1905,° setting UP 
over 30 new ‘species, mainly from India, Formosa and Papua, 
whilst Wandolleck, Schmitz and Aldrich have added a species 
or two each. 
‘ 
nests. Dr. Annandale has described a very interesting 0 
genus, Rhynchomicropteron from Ceylon,* van Schmitz ° has 
discussed this and other myrmecophilous ge 
The alleged new family P Thisovewiias seen by Was- 
mann for Termitoxenia assmuthi cannot sustain such r 
ank. 
core Pot onc ie, —Of the te Pupipare about a dozen pat of 
1 This is not the natural pat cori lk * these groups but they are taken 
10, spd here for the sake of convenie ,: ent 
Becher and de Meij “ ” Tijd. v. Eo 
IVT, 283 (1913). ijere Chinropiden aus Java J 
en. Insect. Fasc. 44 (1906). 4 Spol, Zeyl. VIII, 85 (1913). 
Zool. Jahr. .» p-509(1914). 
