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The present paper deals with the material collected from Namdapha wUd life sanctuary (at present Namdapha National Park and also a Tiger Reserve Forest), Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh. The area includes varied ecological zones from the snow-capped nival areas in the tol'of the mountairis, through alpine and subalpine area in the upper reaches of high lands down to thick-cover of tropical rain forest tract in the lower slopes and valleys extending into plains.

Species dealt with here are eoprophagus in nature and have been collected from dungs of various wild animals, such as elephant, gaur, different varieties of deer. tiger, leopard, bear, wild cats, domestic cattle and human faeces. A few specimens have been collected from· decaying vegetable matters and moist fungusy dead tree trunk.