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fication. Mr. Schwarz related instances of the carriage and 

 breeding of Stegomyia on board ship. 



Mr. Banks recorded the capture at Glencarlyn, Va., of 

 the rare syrphid fly Mixogaster breviventris Kahl. The species 

 was described from Kansas. 



Mr. Schwarz mentioned as an interesting fact that the 

 collection of large tenebrionid beetles of the genus Eleodes 

 sent from the National Museum to Dr. F. E. Blaisdell of San 

 Francisco was entirely uninjured by the earthquake, and the 

 specimens were so returned to the National Museum. Although 

 the shock threw the boxes all together in a heap yet not a tarsus 

 was lost. Doctor Dyar stated that the collection of Lycsemdae 

 of the National Museum sent for study to Mr. Fordyce Grin- 

 nell, Jr., Palo Alto, Cal., was also uninjured by the earthquake. 



Mr. Schwarz presented a paper on the coleopterous fauna 

 of Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. He stated that this portion of 

 Guatemala had been explored by Godman & Salvin for the 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana and later by Champion, the latter 

 spending four years there. He and Mr. Barber made collections 

 in that region last spring while on a mission for the U. S. De 

 partment of Agriculture. Large Coleoptera did not appear to 

 be abundant. About 1,200 species of the order were collected 

 by them in that restricted locality alone. The insect collections 

 which they made at the coast town of Livingston were of quite 

 a different character from those made at Cacao in Alta Vera 

 Paz and from those described in the Biologia, and resemble 

 specimens recorded from British Honduras. 



Mr. Knab remarked that in the tropics the dung beetles of 

 the genus Onthophagus are often seen resting on the leaves. 

 Mr. Schwarz stated that Limnichus in the Byrrhidse and 

 Psederus and certain other staphylinids, which live on the 

 ground along river banks in the United States, live in trees in 

 Guatemala, the necessary moisture for them being found there. 



Mr. Schwarz stated that he and Mr. Barber were under 

 great obligations to Mr. O. F. Cook and Mr. F. L. Lewton, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, for procuring for them with 

 great labor the flowers of some palms in which many fine 

 insects were found. 



Mr. Banks presented the following paper : 



