During the course of faunistic survey of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra in April 2000, we encountered altogether five specimens of Croce filipennis Westwood, a member of family Nemopteridae of order Neuroptera. Again one of us (SST) could collect a single specimen of the same species from Lakhani Village, Bhandara District, Maharashtra (approximately 150 km. away from Tadoba) on 27 April 2000. Earlier, in 1998 we had collected a single mutilated specimen of the same species from Pune. Though seldom seen, all these collections reveal the probability of wide distribution of this species in Maharashtra State.

The Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) also known as the Himalayan black bear is a Vulnerable species. Its range is distributed throughout southern and eastern Asia. Here we report the first photographic evidence of the species in Kaziranga Tiger Reserve situated in the northeast of India. The photo-captured image of the species has unfolded various dimensions of conservation starting from preparation of baseline information to more systematic surveys in the whole landscape or across northeastern India.