PUNDALUOYA

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unidentified item characterised by nests of swiftlets (note 1). SITUATION: At an unspecified location (MAA 1980: 842) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Pundaluoya or Pundaloya and Punduloya (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: None (possibly a high, sheltered cliff in the open air). CAVE LIFE: E.E. Green collected (January 1898) at Pundaluoya specimens of a louse fly (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Myophthiria Rondani), which J. Bequaert described as M. lygaeoides (note 3) and MAA (1980: 842-843) identified as one of the paratypes of Myophthiria Myophthiria zeylanica, sp. nov. (note 4).An unidentified item characterised by nests of swiftlets (note 1). SITUATION: At an unspecified location (MAA 1980: 842) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Pundaluoya or Pundaloya and Punduloya (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: None (possibly a high, sheltered cliff in the open air). CAVE LIFE: E.E. Green collected (January 1898) at Pundaluoya specimens of a louse fly (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Myophthiria Rondani), which J. Bequaert described as M. lygaeoides (note 3) and MAA (1980: 842-843) identified as one of the paratypes of Myophthiria Myophthiria zeylanica, sp. nov. (note 4).