This is the abstract of the paper "On a diffusion-kinetic equation arising in extended kinetic theory" by Jacek Banasiak. For the whole paper send the command get evolve-l 99-00021 to: "listserv@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de". Instead you may get the paper at "http://ma1serv.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/evolve-l/index.html" too. Abstract: The paper is devoted to the study of solvability of an evolution equation obtained as a hydrodynamic limit of a linear Boltzmann equation with inelastic scattering term. An interesting feature of this equation is that it combines the diffusion operator and a singular operator of a kinetic type. The study is carried out in the $L_1$ space which is natural from physical point of view and allows to use an adaptation of Arlotti's generalization of Miyadera-Voigt perturbation theorem. Key words: evolution equations, positive semigroups, inelastic scattering, singular perturbations, diffus~ion approximation AMS Subject Classification: 34G10, 82C40, 47D06, 35Q35