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Herr R. Kleb3 on the Fauna of Amber . 
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Sciara 
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Of Dolichopodidae Low was able to distinguish at least 
sixty-eight different species. The rest of the families of 
Diptera, with very few exceptions, also have their represen- 
tatives in the fauna of amber. Species have been discovered 
quite recently which attract attention owing to their peculiar 
shape, and which, to the best of Herr Klebs’s knowledge, are 
widely separated from existing forms. He instances a large 
Dipteron lately discovered which possesses extraordinarily 
large antennae branched like the antlers of a stag*. 
Of the Hymcnoptera all the groups are represented, with 
the exception of the Braconidae and Evaniadse. The Uro- 
veridse, however, are limited to two large species of Sir ex 
which Herr Klebs has lately discovered. 
The Coleoptera, with about four thousand examples, 
possess representatives of a number of families. Out of a 
total of seventy-five families twenty-six are so far missing. 
These are : — 
Cicindelidae. 
Lucanidae. 
Hydrophilidae. 
Scarabaeidae . 
Clavigeridse. 
Oebrionidae. 
Anisotomidae. 
Melyridae. 
Sphaertidae. 
Cioidae. 
Scaphidiidae. 
Pimmellidae. 
Rhyssodidae. 
Diaperidae. 
Mycetophagidae. 
Helopidae. 
Thorictidae. 
Lagriidae. 
Throcidae. 
Rhipiphoridae. 
Georyssidae. 
Meloidae. 
Parnidae. 
Salpingidae. 
Heteroceridae. 
Corylophidae. 
But besides the Coleoptera which have been allotted to 
’* [In all probability Herr Klebs is mistaken in speaking of these pro- 
cesses as antennce. They are most likely special cuticular developments, 
as in the case of the remarkable genus JElaphomyia , founded by Saunders 
for certain forms discovered by Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, the 
types of which are in the British Museum. These have a pair of antler- 
shaped chitinous processes springing from the head, quite distinct from 
the antennae, which are in the normal position. — T ransl.] 
