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Coleoptera made by him while on a visit to the island at the ex 

 pense of the Department of Agriculture. The subtropical part 

 of Florida must, of course, also be included in the West Indian 

 fauna, and of this fauna there is an almost complete representa 

 tion in the National Museum, amounting to about 200 species. 

 The total of the West Indian collection of Coleoptera in the 

 National Museum foots up to about 1,160 species. Linell's card 

 catalogue, referred to above, includes 919 West Indian species, 

 and Mr. Schwarz, in completing that catalogue, has brought up 

 the total of described West Indian species to about 2,240 an ex 

 tremely small number when compared with the 2^,000 species 

 described from the Central American continent and the 13,000 

 species described from North America. The number of species 

 known from the adjacent portions of South America could not 

 then be given. 



Mr. Summers stated that he had, several years ago, brought 

 200 or 300 species of Coleoptera from Grenada, where he was 

 collecting with Mr. Herbert H. Smith. He was not interested 

 in Coleoptera, however, and had put away what he collected. 

 Most of this material had been destroyed by pests since then, 

 unfortunately, but he promised to donate to the Museum what 

 still remained of them. Dr. Hopkins, also, promised to add two 

 or three species to the Grenada fauna in the Museum. 



Prof. Smith gave some of his experiences during the time 

 when he was Assistant Curator of the Department of Insects in 

 the Museum, beginning in iSS^, and mentioned the material, 

 both in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, which formed the nuclei of 

 the Museum collections in those orders. He said that most prob 

 ably a certain number of West Indian specimens which Mr. 

 Schwarz mentioned as a part of the old Museum collection came 

 from his private collection and had been purchased by him with 

 the old Schaupp collection. Mr. Schwarz then said that the 

 labels of the specimens referred to by Prof. Smith were in a 

 French handwriting and came very probably from the old Chev- 

 rolat collection which contained the material collected by Mr. 

 Felipe Poey. 



Mr. Caudell stated that Gundlach's work was not mentioned 

 in the writings of either Scudder or Rehn. Prof. Uhler re- 



