S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 30/2. (Budapest, 1977)

them: "limosa" det. O. DUDA); L. (Leptocera) curvinervis (Stenhammar, 1854) (B: as Limosina cilifera Rond.). Two of BECKER'

s (1907) species are not recognizable. BECKER wrote on three specimens of Limosina pygmaea Meig. from Tunis and Gafsa. Later, one of them was designated by O. DUDA as a syntype of Limosina ciliata Duda, 1918. The other questionable species (

Borborus fumipennis Stenh. ?) is a Borborillus, and later DUDA identified them as C. (B) niveipennis (Duda, 1923). (see below). Four research workers of the Hungarian Natural History Museum collected for a month in Tunisia, 23 March-23 April, 1977 (Gozmány et Mahunka, 1977), where they collected, among others, a valuable material of several thousands of Diptera. In this material there were 456 sphaerocerid specimens, representing 27 species. One species new to science (Leptocera (Opacifrons) tunis i ca sp.n.) and 15 species new to Tunisia were found. Thus the sphaerocerid fauna of Tunisia was nearly doubled by the interesting material collected by my colleagues.. Now 34 species of Sphaeroceridae are known from Tunisia, but this figure is presumably only about one-third of the actual fauna of Tunisia, to be established by future research work. My colleagues collected sphaerocerid specimens in 18 localities. Their data are as follows: No. 12. Qued Ettin, 5 km from El Kef, 27 March, 1977. Ripicolous fauna collected by treading, also singled, on shores of stream. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 27. Ferma Shitta, Djebel Eddyr, about 7 km N from El Kef, about 1100 m, 28 March, 1977. Five ethylenglycol soil traps, baited with canned liver, at base of perpendicular sheer cliff wall of N exposition; in situ until 3 April, 1977. Leg. S. Mahunka. No.

37/2. Environs of Ain Draham, 31 March, 1977. Berlese and Tartigrada samples from Quercus suber and Q.libanotus forests: 2. mosses from flie ground with the underlying soil. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 38. Same, 31 March, 1977. Singled from under bark of decaying trunk and stones. Leg. L. Gozmány and S. Mahunka. No. 42. Fernana, 1. April, 1977. Singled from horse dropping and from underlying ground. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 43. Ferme Shitta, Djebel Eddyr, about 8 km Ne from El Kef, 1 April, 1977. Singled from horse dropping and from underlying ground. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 46. El Kef: in the town and along its southern border (along railway track), 2 April, 1977. Netted from weedy vegetation along tracks and ditch borders. Leg. L. Gozmány and S. Mahunka

. No. 49. About 2 km NW from Maktar, 3 April, 1977. Berlese and Tardigrada samples from barren sites on border of town: 1. litter from base of Pinus pinsapo and a pulvinate Composite plant. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 50. Same, 3 April, 1977. Netted from shore vegetation and ground also singled (insects flying over water surface). Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 60. Same, 2 April, 1977. Lighting (MV lamp) for nocturnal Insects, 1900-2300, 22-16 C°, slight wind, open sky, full moon. Leg. L. Gozmány and S. Mahunka. No. 64. Boughrara: agricultural college, 2 April, 1977. Lighting (MV lamp), 1900-2330, about 2015 C°, soft wind, partly overcast sky. Leg. L*. Gozmány and S. Mahunka. No. 73. Same, 6 April, 1977. Netted on plants, mimosa shrubs, in cypress alley (also reservoir and a dung heap in Its vicinity!) Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 77. Same, 6 April, 1977. Sifted from dead decaying snake, also soil underneath it. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 80. Plage Chaffar, Nakta, 7 April, 1977. Netted on seacoast or on marsch vegetation (Juncus sp, Salsola sp., etc.) along seacoast. Leg. S.Mahunka. No. 97. Oued Esmara, on the Mahares - Gabes road, 59 km S from Sfax, 10 April, 1977. Hardly moving

1 very saltly water, sparse shore vegetation. Beaten from plants, netted from wet ground. Leg. S. Mahunka. No. 106. Same, palm plantation of oasis, 14 April, 1977. Singled from under hay and litter inbeds of palm tree rows. Leg. Zs. Debreczy, A. Embey-Isztin and S. Mahunka. No« 116. Degache, agricultural school, 15 April, 1977. Lighted material, MV lamp, 1900-2130, 2515 C°, overcast sky, before storm; an extremely intense flight! Leg. L. Gozmány and S. Mahunka. No. 116. Tozeur, in town, 16 April, 1977. Netted from straw, debris, excrement in open cattle barn. Leg. S. Mahunka.