RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NYCTERIBIIDAE AND STREBLIDAE (Diptera) x

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The present paper represents a partial report on the Nycteribiidae and Streblidae in collections of the B. P. Bishop Museum, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)2* U. S. Navy Medical Research Unit No. 2 (NAMRU), Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie of Leiden ( L D N ) , Naturhistorischen Museum of Basel (BSL), Canada Department of Agriculture Entomology Research Institute, U. S. National Museum (US) and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine of Sydney (SHMS). Unless indicated by abbreviations of other institutes, the specimens examined are in the Bishop Museum collection. For the loan of the material, I am much indebted to Drs. J. G. Rozen, Jr., H. M. Van Deusen, R. E. Kuntz, H. Hurlbut, M. A. Lieftinck, F. Keiser, G. P. Holland, A. Stone and B. McMillan. I am obliged to Prof. O. Theodor of Jerusalem, who is undertaking a world revision of the Nycteribiidae, for his information on certain species here discussed.