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Protidricerus elwesi (McLachlan, 1891) Material — Pakistan, Islamabad, 26-27.06.1992, leg. G. Csorba and M. Hreblay: 1 female. Hitherto this species was reported from China and India. It is new to the fauna of Pakistan. Protidricerus philippinensis Esben-Petersen, 1927 Material — Taiwan, Prov. Miaoli, 49 km of Tungshih, 2490 m a.s.l., 08.08.1996, leg. T. Csővári and E. Mikus: 1 male. Hitherto this ascalaphid was found only on the Philippines. New to the fauna of Taiwan. It is worth to mention that the examined specimen agrees in every respect with the original description, but larger. Length of the fore wing: 40 mm, of abdomen: 20 mm, of antenna: 26 mm, while in the case of the female holotype these measurements are 28 mm, 15 mm and 20 mm, respectively. Ptyngidricerus venustus Tjeder et Waterston, 1977 Material — Jammu and Kashmir, under administration of Pakistan, Gupis, 2000 m a.s.l, 20.06.1992, leg. G. Csorba and M. Hreblay: 2 males. This insect hitherto was known from Iran and Oman. It is new to the fauna of India and Pakistan. Tmesibasis larseni (Holzel, 1983) Material — Yemen, Wadi Zabid, 07.1969, leg. A. Szalay-Marzsó: 1 male. Tmesibasis larseni hitherto was known from Oman and Saudi Arabia. It is new to the fauna of Yemen. Acknowledgement — I would like to express my thanks to Dr. Ulrike Aspöck (Natural History Museum of Vienna) for loan of a male paratype of Bubopsis andromache. REFERENCES Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H. and Holzel, H. (1979): Bubopsis andromache n.sp. - eine neue Species der Familie Ascalaphidae (Neuropteroidea, Planipennia) aus dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum. — Z. ArbGem. öst. Ent. 30: 113-116. Navás, L. (1913): Sinopsis de los Ascaláftdos (Ins. Neur.). —Arx. Inst. Cienc. 1: 45-143, Pis I-II. Sziráki, Gy. (1998): An annotated checklist of the Ascalaphidae species known from Asia and from the Pacific islands. — Folia ent. hung. 59: 57-72. Van der Weele, H.W. (1909): Ascalaphiden. — Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps 8: 1-326. (Received: 8th March, 2000) Author's address: György SZIRÁKI Department of Zoology Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13. HUNGARY e-mail: sziraki@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu