Phorid News Issue # 1

Collections Moved
The phorid collections of the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard) are on long-term loan to Brian Brown. Any requests for loans of material should be addressed to him.

New Book
"Scuttle flies: the Phoridae" by R.H.L. Disney. 1994. Chapman and Hall. xii + 467 pp.  Contains a review of the literature about phorid flies, plus a new key to identification of World genera.

List of phorid enthusiasts
Below is my current mailing list. If you know of others interested in phorids, who would like to receive this newsletter, please have them contact me. Similarly, please let me know of mistakes you find here. 

Jeffery K. Barnes, Biological Survey, Rm.3132, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY, 12230, U.S.A. Telephone (518) 486-2004.

Brian V. Brown, Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A. Telephone (213) 744-3363. FAX (213) 746-2999. E-mail brianb@mizar.usc.edu.

Matthias Buck, Dept. Ecology and Morphology of Animals, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, GERMANY. E-mail meyer_eb@dulruu51.bitnet.

R. Henry L. Disney, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ England.

Donald H. Feener, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, U.S.A. Telephone (801) 581-6444.

Tadao Got", Central Forest Research Lab and Training Center, Royal Forest Department, Bangken, Bangkok, 10900 Thailand

Guangchun Liu, Institute of Entomology, Northwestern Agricultural University, P.R. China, 712100

David H. Kistner, California State University, Chico, CA, 95929-0515, U.S.A.

Mikhail B. Mostovski, Arthropod Laboratory, Palaeontological Institute, 123, Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, 117647, Russia. Telephone (095) 238-0721. FAX (095) 339-0622. E-mail rasna@glas.apc.org

Hugh Oliver, 172 Upper Dinsdale Road, Hamilton, New Zealand

Matt Orr, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712, U.S.A.

Sabine Prescher, Zoologisches Institut der TU, Pockelsstra‡e 10a, D-3300, Braunschweig, GERMANY.

Sven-Olof Ulefors, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1