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family, and Prof. Kieffer has recently sent to it a monograph 

 containing descriptions of about 90 new species, described from 

 types in its collection. A further paper by the same author 

 will deal with the residuum of the Museum's undescribed 

 material. 



Psychodidce. — No species whatever were known from the 

 East in this family till 1908, when Dr. Annandale described 

 Phlebotomus argentipes} Since then I have added 14 species 

 from India," 2 which seems to suggest that the species must be 

 very numerous in the East, as no other countries have appa- 

 rently been collected over at all. Moreover, several additional 

 forms of Phlebotomus are at present being described by Dr. 

 Annandale. There are probably a very great number of exist- 

 ing species in this family throughout the world, as a consider- 

 able number were discovered in quite a limited region in 

 England alone by Eaton, a fact which tends to support my 

 view. A most interesting discovery in this family was made 

 by Dr. Annandale recently ; he found a living species of an 

 extinct genus {Diplonema, Lw.) in the Darjeeling District y s and 

 he has subsequently found a second species of the same peculiar 

 genus in South India ; this latter to be described shortly. 



Bibionidce. — Only one new species has been described 

 since the 12 recorded by Van derWulp; but to this total I shall 

 shortly add several others from specimens preserved in the 

 Indian Museum or in my own collection. 



Simuliidce. — Three or four additional undescribed species 

 in the Indian Museum are to be added to the only two recorded 

 from the East, viz., Simulium indicum, Becher, and S. nobile, 

 Meij. 



Tipulidce. — 140 species figure in the 1896 Catalogue, to 

 which number Herr Meijere has added a few new ones. The 

 Indian Museum is especially rich in this family, and my own 

 collection contains a considerable number collected by me in 

 Mussoorie, Darjeeling and the Far East, so that my forthcoming 

 monographic revision in this family will comprise nearly 100 

 new oriental species. 



Rhyphidce. — Only one species is given by Van der Wulp, 

 but I am shortly describing three new ones, as well as a variety 

 of the common European Rhyphus fenes traits , Scop. 



Only one or two other species remain to be added to the 

 Nemocera, additional to the one species each recorded by Van 

 der Wulp in Dixidce and Blepharoceridce. 



A revisionary glance of the first Suborder shows the follow- 

 ing remarkable figures as the results of the past few years' 



work : — 



1 Rec. Ind. Mus., ii, 101. * Loc cit. ,ii 9 369 



; Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, (new ser.), iv ? 353. 



