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including several interesting beetles, such as the beautiful 

 Pachyta liturata Kirby and Anaspis rufa Say, both of which 

 were taken at the flowers of Ligusticum scoticum. 



Of Hymenoptera, as usual, the most conspicuous representa- 

 tives were the bumble-bees, of w r hich no less than five species 

 were taken from the flowers of Epilobium spicatum, including 

 Bombus cou-peri Cr., B. oregonensis Cr., JB. polaris Curtis, B. 

 sylvicola Kby., and Psithyrus insular is (Smith). None of the 

 other families of bees were represented, so far as discovered, 

 but of the Sphegoidea two examples came to hand, Ectemnius 

 parvulus (Pack.) and Blcpharipus ater (Cr.), both of which oc- 

 cur upon the flowers of AchiUca. 



The only saw-flies collected belong to the genus Tcnthredo^ of 

 which seven species were taken T. ferrngincipcs Cr., T. 

 varipicta Nort., T. evansit Hgtn., T. flavomarginis Nort., T. 

 nigricollis Kirby, T. crythromera Prov., and T. melanosoma 

 Hgtn. The Kenai Peninsula would seem to be almost the 

 western limit of some of these species of Tenthredo, since very 

 few were found at Kukak, to the westward. 



Of parasitic Hymenoptera, the collection includes only nine 

 species, of which Mr. Ashmead has described eight as new. 



Two butterflies and two moths compose the list of Lepidoptera. 

 One of the butterflies was the common Pieris^ the other was 

 Chrysophanus dorcas Kirby and occurred in great numbers at 

 the flowers of Comarum palustre. 



The series of Hemiptera taken at Seldovia was unexpectedly 

 large. Of Heteroptera six species were collected Mcgalocera 

 ruficornis Fallen, Me comma gilvipcs Stal, Lygus pratcnsis L., 

 Nysius grdnlandicus 'Le\k.,N'abis jlavomarginis sibcricus Reuter, 

 and Aradus sp. Of Homoptera, four species were taken in 

 the sweep net Deltocephalus harrimani sp. nov. Ashmead, 

 Cicadula sexnotata (Fallen), Cicadula fasciifrons (Stal), and 

 Psylla alaskensis sp. nov. Ashmead. 



Dragon-flies were quite common along the margin of a small 

 lake near camp, but seemed to be all of the single species 

 Enallagma calverti Morse. 



Very little attention was paid to the collection of spiders, on 

 account of lack of time, but the group seemed to be well rep- 



