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SPECIAL REPORT ON THE COLLECTION 
2 Miscellaneous Notes on the Localities of the Diptera in Loew's and 
my Collections (riow both in the Museums in Cambridge , Mass.') 
and on the Collectors who , besides myself, have contributed to 
them 
Many specimens, in both collections, will be found without any 
indication of locality. Most of them are specimens of my own 
early collecting, principally about Washington, D. C. In sending 
them to Loew I always informed him of the localities, which for 
this reason ought to be found recorded in his descriptions. 
Diptera coming from various sources bear different little labels, 
some of which I shall attempt to explain. 
1. Labels with numbers, corresponding to the same numbers in 
the Qsten Sacken Collection (in the same Museum), represent 
specimens which I sent to Loew, while keeping duplicate speci¬ 
mens in my own collection. (Compare my Reports to the Trustees 
of the Museum 44, 1875, p. 15.) 
2. Round, blue labels mean specimens from Mr. Calverly (at 
that time in Brooklyn, N. Y.), collected in New York State. 
3. Silver squares mean Cuba (Loew’s Coll.). 
4. Ochre — yellow squares — Texas (id.). 
5. Green squares with R upon them mean, “ Red River of the 
North ” (collected by Mr. Robert Kennicott) ; similar green squares 
with Fa upon them, indicate my collecting in Florida ; and those 
with Cu , my collecting in Cuba. 
6. Small pink squares mean Sitka (Loew’s Coll.); somewhat 
similar, but larger squares of a reddish color I have for some time 
used for District of Columbia , but they do not occur often. 
7. Some paper squares with dates will be easily recognized as 
indicating flies from Pecos River , collected by United States officers 
under the command of Captain (later General) Pope. In Loew’s 
“ Centuries ” such specimens are marked: New Mexico (Captain 
Pope). 
8. White labels, with numbers, mean: collected by Mr. S. II. 
Scudder in Massachusetts. Nearly similar labels indicate insects 
received from Connecticut (E. Norton). 
9. Small yellow round labels mean Florida , collected by Mr. E. 
Norton. 
