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

The collected material fall into the following groups Lumbricidae 157 Thysanoptera 486 Mollusca 7 Lepidoptera 238 Crustacea 2096 Neuropteroidea 85 Chilopoda 30 Hymenoptera 3250 Collembola 161 Diptera 45741 Thysanura 6 Rhynchota 3368 Ephemeropteroidea 58 Arachnoidea 858 Orthopteroidea 227 Acari* 23 Coleoptera 2791 Scorpiones 7 Total: 59589 ex. To this number we should add a further 21341 flies, which were collected in the cattle farms (mainly in Bini Hesar) (see PAPP 1975), and the material of 49 Berlese samples, in which a large proportion is Collembola. The above list clearly shows that some important insect groups like the Ephemeropteroidea, Lepidoptera, Neuropteroidea are hardly represented in my collectings. Apart from one occasion I had no opportunity to use lamps to collect nocturnal animals, primarily Lepidoptera. The number of Coleoptera is not insignificant, nevertheless, it is hardly expected that the material contains new species since most of my localities have been frequented before me by other collectors. The material of Thysanoptera, Hymenoptera, Rhynchota and Arachnoidea (primarily Araneae) appears to be fairly richin species. The Diptera material is not only large in number but in species it is also rather versatile. Some 60 families are represented in my material, several of them are new to the fauna of Afghanistan. We agreed with the authorities of the Kabul University that from all identified; species we are to send back representatives for the insect collection housed inthe Zoological and Parasitological Department of the Kabul University. Accordingly, herewith I request all specialists working on the materials collected by me to mark species by species that at least one specimen (in cases of long series more specimens) is to be deposited in the Kabul University. These specimens will be sent to the Kabul University at a future date by me. Finally, I should like to sincerely thank Dr. CLAS M. NAUMANN and Dr. A. ALIM KAYUMI for having helped me in the preliminary preparations of the trips, and also MIAN AHMAD,engineer, (Kabul) for his verykind and friendly support. European collectors in Afghanistan have always found great difficulties in the orthography of Afghan locality names. The hereunder given locality list is based in all possible cases on the maps issued by the Afghan Cartographic Institute in 1969 at a scale of 1:250000. Consequently, all other transcriptions used by my predecessors in Afghanistan I leave out of consideration. ^Without the Berlese-samples