S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 28/2. (Budapest, 1975)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (SERIES NOVA) XXVIII. 2. 1975 p. 321-336 A report on a zoological study and collecting trip to Afghanistan By L. PAPP (Received January 30, 1975) Abstract: Report on an Afghan collecting tour, possibilities and modes of collecting, list of collected material, detailed list of localities, numerical distribution of the collected animals. Within the frame of the Hungaro-Afghan Cultural Exchange Program I spent three months in that country studying and collecting insects. On the 27th of March, 1974 I boarded an aeroplane in Budapest and touching Moscow reached Kabul on the 28th. I returned on the 23rd of June and reached Budapest, by the same route, on the following day. I was the guest ot the Zoological and Parasitological Department in the Faculty of Science of the Kabul University. I was provided with an appropriately equipped laboratory where a series of funnels has been set up to obtain soil animals and where I could make preparations in order to conserve the collected animals. The Head of the Department, Prof. Dr. AHMAD SHAH DJALAL and his colleague M. EH SAN ARGHANDEWAL were kind enough to give me all possible help to make my study-tour and collecting trip as successful as possible. Herewith I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to both of them. Since I was the first Hungarian zoologist to visit Afghanistan, I set as my principal task to realize good personal and scientific connections with the representatives of the Afghan biology. Together with Prof. Dr. AHMAD S. DJALAL we worked out a proposal for a collaboration between Hungarian and Afghan zoologists to explore the invertebrate fauna of Afghanistan; the project would be headed by the Kabul Univer-