20 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
like to inake a few remarks on that most interesting little 
group of the Parasitica—the Mymarides. It is regarded by 
some as a distinct family, while others place it in the Procto- 
trypidae. In Genera Insectorum, 1909, it is classed as a sub- 
fessor Westwood in 1879 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. CED 1. 
Mymar has been taken by sweeping among low herbage, and 
Dr. Annandale has described! anew species of Alaptus® which 
dropped into clove oil while he was doing microscopic work 
Recently I found Mymar taprobanicus, a Ceylonese species of 
which many specimens were collected about fifty years ago, in 
a collection of insects which I received from Mr. C. N. Barker 
of the Durban Museum. So far as I know the species has not 
been taken lately in Ceylon and as no species of the genus has 
ever been taken in any part of Africa, the record is of con- 
siderable interest. Unfortunately the slide of the insect has 
been damaged, but Mr. Barker has promised to send me 
specimens should he ever obtain any. 
It might now be useful to give a few comparative notes 
with our knowledge of 1897 under each family. For conve- 
nience I have adopted the arrangement given by Bingham. 
Family MutiLuipae. 
Ent.. Mag. 1889, p. 228. The majority of Cameron’s species 
have been described in Mem. Manch. Phil. Soc. from 1896- 
species from Ceylon. Bingham reports on a collection from the 
Indian Museum in Rec. Ind. Mus. II, 1908. Species of Odon- 
tomutilla, Rhopalomutilla, Spilomutilla, Promecila, and Da 
labris have also been described from within our limits.8 
a ge ee 
l Rec. Ind. Mus. III, Pp- 299 (1909). 
might be of interest to note here that Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
21t 
France (4), VIII, p. 371 (1868) r Al : 
enemies of the Abwirodas ) records Alaptus as one of the chief 
3 Cf. Ann. Soc. Ent. Pranee. 1903, pp. 426-27; Spol. Zeyl. VIII F 
141 and 151, 1911; and Deute. Ent. Zake 1907, pp. 262 and 283, 
