34. Advances in our Knowledge of the Fauna of the Fresh 
and Brackish Waters of India, with a Bibliography 
for the years 1912-1922, 
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By N. AnnanpbaLp, D.So., F.A.8.B., Director, Zoological Survey 
of India. Bibliography compiled by Cepric Dover, F.E.S. 
Ten vears ago I published in this Journal! a brief account 
of our knowledge of the freshwater fauna of the Indian Empire. 
Since then much has been done in both fresh and brackish 
taken with the aid of the bibliography prepared, mainly under 
tera or Rhynchota; but references to the first of these groups 
are given in Mr Brunetti’s ‘‘Catalogue” (Rec. Ind. Mus., XVU, 
1920) and in the first volume on the Diptera published by 
him in the ‘Fauna of British India” (1912) A more recent 
paper of exceptional interest is Mr. F. W. Edward’s account 
of an aquatic Dipteron from Kashmir so peculiar as to con- 
stitute a new family of Nemocera. This insect, to which the 
name Deuterophlebia mirabilis has been given, is described in 
Vol. IX (p. 379) of the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, 1922. 
Apart from the information contained in the later volumes 
on the Rhynchota by Mr. W. L. Distant in the ‘‘ Fauna 
R. J. Tillyard’s account of an extremely archaic larva 
the same group from the Darjiling hills is one of the mos 

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