17 papers on Egyptian Diptera

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Text French/English/German. A collection of 17 papers/offprints on Egyptian Diptera from the inter-war period, published in Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Égypte. Subjects include life histories, larval and pupal descriptions, faunal surveys, and numerous descriptions of new genera and species, families include Nemestrinidae, Trypaneidae, Bombyliidae, Asilidae, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae, Tabanidae, Conopidae, and Therevidae.

(1) The Life-history of Telmatoscopus merodionalis Eaton (Dipt.) by H.C. Efflatoun, 1920, pp. 22-33; (2) Myodaires supérieurs d'Egypte inédits (Dipt.), by J. Villeneuve, 1922, pp. 88-94; (3) A new species of Nemestrina (Dipt. Nemestrinidae) from Egypt by H.C. Efflatoun, 1924, pp. 357-360; (4) Two new species of Spheniscomyia (Diptera, Trypaneidae) from Egypt by H.C. Efflatoun, 1924 pp. 132-139; (5) A new specis of the galligenous genus Euaresta (Dipt.: Trypaneidae) by H.C. Efflatoun, 1923, pp.152-156; (6) Deux Syllegomydas inédits d'Egypte (Dipt.) by M. Bezzi, 1923, pp. 157-166; (7) Aegyptische Dipteren aus den Familien der Conopidae, Omphralidae und Therevidae by O. Kroeber, 1923, pp. 57-116; (8) Quelques notes sur les Bombyliides (Dipt.) d'Egypte, avec description d'espéces nouvelles by M. Bezzi, 1924, pp. 159-242; (9) Contribution á la faune diptérologique d'Egypte by O. Parent, 1925, pp. 153-185; (10) Egyptian Asilidae (Dipt.) collected by H.C. Efflatoun Bey by E.O. Engel, 1924, pp.345-355; (11) Additional notes to my paper on Egyptian Asilids, with description of a N. g. and a N. sp. (Dipt.) by E.O. Engel, 1925, pp. 139-144; (12) Neue ägyptische Stratiomyidae (Dipt.) by E. Lindner, 1925, pp. 145-151; (13) Descriptions of the larvae and pupae of Schistopterum moebiusi Beck. And Terellia planiscutellata Beck. (Diptera, Trypaneidae) by H.C. Efflatoun, 1925, pp. 62-75; (14) Egyptian Tabanidae by O. Kroeber, 1925, pp.77-137; (15) Contribution to the knowledge of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera) by H.C. Efflatoun Bey, 1925, pp. 274-283; (16) Notes additionelles sur les Bombyliides (Dipt.) d'Egypte by M. Bezzi, 1925, pp. 244-273; (17) Neue Dipteren aus Aegypten by O. Kroeber, 1925, pp. 232-243.

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A collection of papers, bound in cloth, red leather title piece to spine, orig. wrappers retained. Vg. Inscribed "W. J. Ankell, Cairo 1926, from Efflatoun Bey".

William Joscelyn Arkell (1904-1958) was a British geologist and palaeontologist widely recognised as the foremost authority on the Jurassic Period. Although he initially intended to study entomology at University of Oxford and had a particular interest in Diptera, he ultimately graduated with First Class Honours in geology. During his doctoral research, Arkell spent four winter seasons between 1926 and 1930 in the Nile Valley, Egypt, working alongside British geologist and archaeologist Kenneth Stuart Sandford (1899-1971) on the study of early human remains. Hassan Chaker Efflatoun was a prominent Egyptian Dipterist.